SYRACUSE -- All That Remains is signed as the headliner, set to appear following five other bands on the bill for "Sausagefest," hosted by Citadel rocker 95X (WAQX). Tickets for the Friday, August 12th concert at Baldwinsville's Paper Mill Island are already on sale.
SYRACUSE -- NPR News senior national correspondent Linda Wertheimer will be speaking in Syracuse tomorrow night, sharing stories from her long career with National Public Radio, including her 13 years as the host of All Things Considered.
UTICA -- Television news outlets from Syracuse and Utica set their competitive differences aside yesterday, pooling their resources to provide live coverage of the funeral services for Oneida County Sheriff's Deputy Kurt Wyman. Staffers, cameras, live trucks and other resources from WKTV, YNN, WSTM, WTVH and WSYR were combined as a single unit for yesterday's […]
SYRACUSE -- CBS News travel editor Peter Greenberg, the host of the nationally-syndicated Peter Greenberg Worldwide, will be in Central New York later this month. He'll be hosting a live taping of his show from The Sherwood Inn in Skaneateles, on June 25 and the public is invited to attend.
DES MOINES, IA -- Former 95X (WAQX) Program Director Steve Brill is leaving radio, according to multiple national trade outlets. Brill, who will end a 30-year radio career when he wraps up a 3-year run as Ops Manager for Citadel's Des Moines cluster next month, is forming his own company. But rather than leave radio […]
OSWEGO -- If you've got a particularly favorite program on WRVO, you may need to adjust your listening habits. Later this month, the NPR affiliate will be launching a third program stream. The added capacity gives the station some new opportunities to group certain types of programming together, meaning some programs will be moving to […]
WASHINGTON, DC -- When you hear that annoying modem-like tone signaling the start of an Emergency Alert System (EAS) activation, you usually expect to hear either a test message, or a severe weather warning. Thankfully, EAS has never been needed for a national-level alert. But, if we ever needed EAS for a national alert, would […]
SYRACUSE -- This week, we've got not one... not two... but four different Pictures of the Week. Syracuse radio stations were out in full force at a number of special events last weekend. It wouldn't be fair to choose just one and make the others wait for another week or two, so we just decided […]
Updated 11:15pm -- The WTVH transmitter has been fixed. The transmitter of the CBS affiliate had a problem which forced the station to go off-air for several hours today.
SARATOGA -- With nine first-place awards, Oswego-based NPR affiliate WRVO was the big winner among radio stations -- both locally and statewide -- at the New York State Associated Press Broadcast Association Awards over the weekend. On the other hand, all but two of the nominations for local TV stations did not materialize into first-place […]