Category: Syracuse Radio

Beginning this Friday, Big Mike's annual Christmas CD will be available at all ten area Wegmans stores. This, the 8th annual collection of holiday music performed by local musicians, is a compilation of the best of the first seven albums. Artists include: Benny Mardones, Ronnie Leigh, Todd Hobin, Gary Frenay, and Street Corner among many […]

There wasn't much shifting of rank in the latest monthly trend numbers for Syracuse released yesterday by Arbitron. Market leader B104.7 picked up nearly a point, which puts them comfortably ahead of second place 93Q. WSYR inched ahead of Hot 107-9 to move into fourth place. Numbers are for all listeners in all dayparts and […]

Former Hot 107-9 jock Matt Johnson is on the move again. Johnson, who left Syracuse for WDBT in Jackson, Mississippi in January, is headed to Dayton, Ohio to program Clear Channel's KISS-FM 94.5. He replaces Dino Robataille who left to work with Hot's Jason Kidd as assistant program and music director of KISS 96-1 (WKST) […]

For the second year in a row, Y94FM will flip formats for the holidays. Starting Wednesday at 3 p.m., the adult contemporary station will switch to a 24/7 holiday music rotation which will run through Christmas day.

It was just over a year ago that Reggie Jordan moved from Richmond, VA to Central New York to head up Citadel Communications' Syracuse radio stations. Jordan is on the move once again, this time to Charlestown, SC as vice president and general manager of Citadel's group of stations there.

TV Guide is reporting that Art Bell is working with country music legend Merle Haggard to help turn him into a radio talk show host. Bell, who is retiring at the end of the year, sees Haggard as a good bet to host a show that mixes music with talk of the paranormal similar to […]

With the Environment Show ending production as of last week, both WAER FM 88.3 and WRVO FM 90 have an hour to fill on Saturday mornings. WAER will bring back Living On Earth at 7 a.m. while WRVO will fill the 6 a.m. slot with programming from the BBC. The changes take affect this weekend.

After eight years as part of Y94FM's morning show, Kathy Rowe is giving up early mornings to devote more time to her programming responsibilities and midday on-air shift.

Syracuse's Landmark Theatre hopes that planned renovations to the historic theater will help it bring top shelf, Broadway sized shows to town on a regular basis. Assemblyman William Magnarelli announced yesterday that the theater is in line for $3.8 million in state grants to help with renovation efforts. The Landmark is also working on a […]

Known for her insightful interviews of authors, athletes, entertainers, and politicians, Terry Gross, host of National Public Radio's Fresh Air, is this month's Rosamund Gifford Lecture Series guest speaker. The Thursday evening event gets underway at 7:30 in the Crouse Hinds Concert Theater at Mulroy Civic Center. Tickets are $22 and available at the OnCenter […]