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CENTRAL NEW YORK — Tomorrow, we’ll tally up our web server stats and countdown the top 10 stories of the year, as ranked by number of page views. First, we’re adding something new to our “Year in Review” coverage this year: earlier this month, we put out an open call for YOUR opinions on the

Updated 12/31 CENTRAL NEW YORK — While most media outlets use this week to look back at all the general news from 2011, we’re using these last few days of the year to look back at all the news from within those media outlets.  On New Year’s Eve, we’ll countdown our “top 10” stories based on

SYRACUSE — Chalk it up as another benefit of DTV multicasting: Syracuse viewers looking to turn their sets into virtual fireplaces this Christmas will have at least two choices. WSYR-DT 9.2 and WCNY-DT 24.4 will each broadcast their own burning yule log video non-stop starting at noon on Christmas Eve. If your TV has picture-in-picture,

NEW YORK CITY — Former YNN Syracuse reporter Narmeen Choudhury, in just two job hops, has landed in the nation’s biggest TV market.  Four years after leaving Syracuse to work in Hartford, Connecticut, Choudhury has accepted a reporting position at New York City’s WPIX.

WASHINGTON, DC — You’re watching something on television. All the sudden, a commercial break begins and you’re blown out of your seat by the abrupt increase in audio volume. Perhaps a family member yells at you to turn down the TV, even though you never turned it up in the first place.  Thanks to some

SYRACUSE — Viewers have been asking, and NewsChannel 9 (WSYR-TV) today explained the noted recent absence of longtime anchor Rod Wood.  He’s recovering after “a minor surgical procedure,” according to a statement released by the station this afternoon.

SYRACUSE — Longtime local newspaper reporter Richard Long — who logged plenty of time as a television documentary producer later in his career — has died. In the late 1990s, Long produced Skaneateles Scrapbook, an 11-episode series which aired on local cable access channels. Of the two plays he wrote, one eventually became an award-winning

Updated 12/6 with WSYR press release — SYRACUSE — Nearly seven months after Jim Tortora vacated the News Director’s office at NewsChannel 9 (WSYR-TV), there’s now word of a new leader for the ABC affiliate’s news department.  Reliable sources tell CNYTVNews.com that the new boss will be Rob Cartwright, who comes to Syracuse after three

SYRACUSE — Our congratulations to Brian Erb, who recently marked his 40th anniversary as a news photographer with TV-3.  We’re careful not to say he’s worked at “WSTM-TV” for the past 40 years — not just because WSTM, WTVH and WSTQ now collectively call themselves “CNYCentral” — but because WSTM-TV wasn’t known by those call

DALLAS — From our “Where Are They Now” file, congratulations to former NewsChannel 9 (WSYR-TV) reporter Ray Villeda, who recently landed a top-5 market job as a reporter with NBC affiliate KXAS-TV in Dallas, Texas.  For the past two years since leaving Syracuse, Villeda was reporting and anchoring at CBS affiliate WFSB in Hartford, CT.