Category: Syracuse Radio

SYRACUSE -- Brad Stone, the man behind the now-defunct KISS-FM webcast hasn't disappeared off the internet radio landscape. Following a fire last summer that damaged the KISS-FM studios, Stone says he's not currently looking to revive the station (or a "new station" he was planning earlier), because he's focusing his efforts on Nerdvana, a syndicated […]

SYRACUSE -- Governor Andrew Cuomo will present his very first state budget today at 1:00pm, and various local media outlets are offering live coverage. We have a rundown of outlets who have stated they'll be carrying Cuomo's address live today.

SYRACUSE -- The Irish Power Hour is moving to a new station at a new time.  The one-hour show, currently heard Sunday nights at 6pm on Citadel's 105.9 The Big Talker (WXTL) will be moving to sister station 95X (WAQX) in two weeks -- and it'll be airing three hours later, at 9pm.  The change […]

SYRACUSE -- When WSYR's news/talk format first started simulcasting at 106.9FM three weeks ago, staffers said it was actually the other way around -- the station moved to 106.9 and was simulcasting on 570.  All mentions of 570 disappeared.  But, a week after anchors and hosts started calling it "FM Newsradio 106.9 and 570 WSYR," […]

SYRACUSE -- Almost a year since "Yo! Sunny Joe" Allen exited Foxfur's MOViN 100.3/96.5 (WMVN), he's back on the air again. According to AllAccess, he just started this week doing afternoons for Saga-owned WKNE, a top-40 station in Keene, New Hampshire. In Syracuse, Allen also served as production director for sister stations New Country WOLF […]

SYRACUSE -- You've heard her on the radio, you've seen her on television, and for the next few weeks, you'll even see the smiling face of 93Q (WNTQ) morning co-host Amy Robbins all over the area -- in supermarket checkout lanes, on newsstands, and elsewhere.  She's featured on the cover of the premiere issue of […]

ASHEVILLE, NC -- Cleve Mathews, whose career highlights include helping to create NPR's All Things Considered and nearly 15 years as a professor and administrator at Syracuse University's Newhouse School, has died. Mathews was 84, when esophageal cancer claimed his life in North Carolina late last week.

SYRACUSE -- When Clear Channel eliminated the sports format on AM 620 (WHEN), as part of a two-stage move to create an AM/FM simulcast of dominant news/talk station WSYR, two local sports shows hosted by Mike Bristol were left homeless. Now, both shows are "back and better than ever," across town at the four ESPN […]

Updated 1/17 -- SYRACUSE -- As national radio news websites like Radio-Info.com report on job cuts at Clear Channel stations across the country, we've heard rumblings that those cuts include two reporters at FM Newsradio 106.9 WSYR.  While the cuts have not been confirmed by Clear Channel management, we've heard from multiple readers known to […]

SYRACUSE -- Time for our latest installment from the "Where Are They Now?" file.  Two former Syracuse broadcasters are moving to new jobs.  Mike Couzens recently left the Syracuse sports radio scene to take a job in New York City.  And one timezone west, former CNY broadcast journalist Leila Walsh leaves the NBC affiliate in […]