Things have been a little quiet this summer over at 89.1 FM. After a silent few months in which station facilities were upgraded, Z89 is set to trot out a new format of sorts come this Sunday. Promos for the launch are running on a continuous loop all this week. And, for a down-to-the-second countdown […]
The search for a programmer for Hot 107-9 is over. Erin Bristol takes over from Jason Kidd who left for Pittsburgh five months ago. Bristol moves from Cedar Rapids, Iowa where she was program director for Clear Channel's hot AC formatted Mix 96.5.
The programming department at Galaxy Communications has been busy the past few days. As the kids head back to school, Sunny 102 is rolling back the music clock about a decade or so. Following yesterday's day-long jock-free preview of the station's new playlist, "The New Sunny 102.1" is now serving up an oldies-based adult contemporary […]
K-Rock and Scorch have parted ways. After a couple year run as morning man of the modern rock station, he's on the street with evening guy J.J. Herr getting up early to take his place.
It's another K-Rock in upstate New York for Syracuse-based Galaxy Communications. After four months of hot talk, Albany's WHTR switched to a modern rock format over the weekend. Gone are Don & Mike, Tom Leykis, Phil Stern, and Opie and Anthony who were fired by their syndicators a couple weeks back. Galaxy's Ed Levine said […]
Local public radio station WRVO is joining with other National Public Radio affiliates across the country in broadcasting 30 hours of special programming leading up to the first anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
The first set of monthly Arbitrend ratings for the Syracuse summer book shows an increase in ratings for each of the top five stations in the market, with B104.7 picking up nearly a full point.
A faulty National Weather Service transmitter on Onondaga Hill was to blame for thousands of listeners of WRVO FM 90 not learning about a July 28 tornado warning until after the fact. The center of the bad weather that day was in the Skaneateles area where the station has a strong listener and donor support […]
Jazz fans will want to tune in to WAER FM 88.3 this Sunday at noon for a two-hour program featuring performances from 15 artists who took to the stage at the 2001 Detroit International Jazz Festival. The special was produced for National Public Radio by Syracuse M&T Jazz Fest director Frank Malfitano.
It's that time of year again. For those attending this year's New York State Fair, as usual, it will be hard to avoid running into something related to one or more Syracuse radio stations. Here's what we know so far...