Syracuse Radio

Six months after walking off the Howard Stern Show over a contract dispute, the New York Post today reports that Jackie “The Joke Man” Martling would love to return to the show.

The syndicated financial advice show The Motley Fool Radio Show has been dropped by Cox Radio Syndication and is scheduled to cease production as of September 17.

In the latest Arbitron figures for Syracuse released last week, with an 11.1 share, Howard Stern’s show broadcast on 95X (WAQX) tops the morning drive rankings.

82-year-old broadcast legend Paul Harvey returned to the microphone today. His brief appearance on his noon newscast is Harvey’s first since May when he came down with a bad case of laryngitis. Saying that “the rusty pipes are being renewed… I’m so eager to return”, it’s still not clear when he’ll be back for good.

Vernon Downs officials found out officially that TK99/105 was canceling its ‘Fireworks Over Syracuse’ event by hearing the news first on the radio.

After nine years, the syndicated medical advice show Sunday Rounds heard locally on WRVO FM 90 has stopped production.

Accusing 570 WSYR of “good old-fashioned, indiscriminate, all-purpose hate,” Syracuse University Professor Laurence Thomas made his displeasure with the station known through an editorial letter in the Syracuse Herald Journal.

The ‘spring book’ is out and Syracuse’s Top 40 formatted stations are big gainers in 12+ numbers.

Blair Garner, creator and host of the nationally syndicated country music show After MidNite has signed a multiyear, multimillion-dollar contract renewal with Premiere Radio Networks. The show which began in 1997 and is currently broadcast on over 200 stations across the country is heard locally weeknights from midnight until 6 a.m. on B104.7.

Football season is just around the corner, and WNSS AM 1260 has picked up the broadcast rights for regular-season games of the Buffalo Bills Radio Network beginning this fall. WNSS switches to its new sports fomat on September 5.