SYRACUSE -- It was a star-studded evening last night at the SRC Arena, on the campus of Onondaga Community College. ABC affiliate NewsChannel 9 (WSYR-TV) celebrated its 50th anniversary with a celebration attended by hundreds... including dozens of past and present employees. Your editor was there, and we have more than 30 photos from the […]
SYRACUSE -- Citing some recent events in her personal life, Mimi Griswold announced plans to retire from her duties as Vice President of Programming for Syracuse-based radio operator Galaxy Communications at the end of this year. Griswold will continue to host Blue Moon Cafe, and she'll serve as a programming consultant.
SYRACUSE -- The competition to be named among the "Best of Syracuse" was considerably intense for local broadcasters this year. For whatever reason, the Syracuse New Times drastically cut back on the number of broadcast-related categories for its annual contest. This year's awards, based on reader-submitted votes, include only one category each for TV and […]
SYRACUSE -- When a news organization is "on top of stuff" every day, that's usually thanks in great part to its assignment editors. They're the folks behind the scenes who keep an eye out for things that might be newsworthy, and decide how the station's going to get it all covered. If it sounds like […]
Updated 12:50pm -- SYRACUSE -- After more than a decade on 93Q (WNTQ), "DC on the Radio" has exited the Cumulus Media CHR-formatted station. Dennis Crawford's last show happened earlier this month, though he says he didn't know it was going to be his last show.
SYRACUSE -- September started with some notable "comings and goings" in local TV news, and the month appears to be ending with more changes. After two and a half years with CNY Central, multimedia journalist and anchor Jessica Cain says she's leaving her post and heading to the midwest.
SYRACUSE -- Starting Monday, viewers will be able to catch live, local television newscasts as early as 4am. CNY Central announced today that NBC 3 (WSTM) will expand its Today in Central New York by a full hour, starting at 4:00am. But there's a flip-side to the expansion: the station will no longer offer the […]
SYRACUSE -- Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb, co-hosts of the fourth hour of the Today show, could be spending a day at Syracuse University next month. The school's status as a finalist for "Kathie Lee and Hoda Go Back to College" was announced on yesterday's broadcast, with a series of live shots from the […]
SYRACUSE -- The early 1920s marked the birth of commercial radio across the world. While Pittsburgh's KDKA is widely known (though often disputed) as the world's first commercial station, Syracuse wasn't very far behind. But to listen to WSYR today, you wouldn't know the station has a big birthday this weekend.
AUBURN -- Finger Lakes News Radio is looking for its next morning news anchor. Here's the job description as provided to CNYRadio.com by PD Ted Baker: