Syracuse Radio

SYRACUSE — The Spring 2009 ratings period doesn’t end until Wednesday, but at least two Syracuse stations are getting a jump on some powerful promotions for the summer book, which begins on Thursday.

ROCHESTER — On July 6, former Syracuse radio personality Jack Mindy will be calling it a career… stepping away from the mic after more than half a century.  Longtime Syracuse residents may remember Mindy’s voice from WHEN, WFBL and WSYR during the 1970s.

OSWEGO — If you use your cable TV service to listen to WRVO, the Oswego-based NPR station wants to hear from you.  Apparently, it makes the station eligible to receive more funding.

SYRACUSE — Country music station B104.7 (WBBS) midday host Amber Taylor has recently picked up some extra time behind the mic, as the host of a new “Sunday Night Showcase” featuring local and unsigned talent.

SYRACUSE — For the first time in years, you won’t see 93Q (WNTQ) at this weekend’s Syracuse Balloonfest.  But they’re OK with that — because the Citadel CHR brought some top names to town last weekend for their very own “Summer Jam on the Island” concert last weekend, and they say it was a huge

AUBURN — Finger Lakes News Radio has a part-time opening for a play-by-play announcer to cover various Auburn High School sports, starting this fall.

ONEIDA — The sale of, as they legal ID themselves, “WMCR AM 1600 and FM 106.3 in Oneida, New York” is a done deal.  After about 40 years of ownership, Vivian Warren has retired from the radio ownership game, nearly a million dollars richer.

SYRACUSE — No, that’s not a typo in the headline… Syracuse-based WRVD 90.3 FM will sign-off around 8:30 Saturday morning for some transmitter maintenance work.  Fred Vigeant, program director for the WRVO Stations says the outage will last “throughout the day.”  Parent station WRVO/Oswego and siblings WRVN/Utica and WRVJ/Watertown will not be affected by the

After 36 years, tomorrow’s edition of Radio & Records will be the very last.  The weekly trade newspaper’s owner, Nielsen, made the announcement to staffers yesterday.

SYRACUSE — It’s not quite like before, but sidelined on-air personalities Mark Vanness and Big Jim Donovan are returning to the airwaves — on different stations both in Syracuse — and both on a part-time basis.