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News items related to the Syracuse TV market. Counties: Cayuga, Cortland, Madison, Oneida-West (including Rome), Onondaga, Oswego, Seneca, Tompkins.


Ex-WTVH Reporter Siff to Star in NYC Mayoral Roast

NEW YORK CITY -- Andrew Siff, who worked as a reporter for Syracuse CBS affiliate WTVH in the early 1990s, is making headlines in the Big Apple. Siff, who now works for WNBC-TV, has been chosen to portray NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg in an upcoming press corps roast of local politicians.

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Z89, Citrus TV to Expand Studios on SU Campus

SYRACUSE -- Membership numbers have been booming for student-run media organizations on the Syracuse University campus... and starting this fall, the amount of floor space devoted to those organizations will begin to catch up. A grocery store inside SU's Watson Hall will be closed down to make way for an expansion of Z89 (WJPZ-FM) and […]

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Sheen Calls Jeff Rossen a "Rock Star"

NEW YORK CITY -- With a story as big as the Charlie Sheen "scandal" (for lack of a better one-word summary), it was only a matter of time until CNYTVNews.com would have some sort of local tie-in.  The troubled actor called Jeff Rossen, a former Syracuse and Utica TV reporter, a "rock star" after Rossen […]

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Where Are They Now: Mylous Hairston Takes a Stand

BUFFALO -- Former WIXT reporter Mylous Hairston is generating plenty of headlines in Buffalo. After 20 years at CBS affiliate WIVB-TV, Hairston suddenly walked off the job last week, complaining of working conditions "in the media field." And this week, there's word he could be in the running for a spokesman job at Buffalo City […]

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Dave Longley Reveals MS Diagnosis

SYRACUSE -- NewsChannel 9 (WSYR-TV) chief meteorologist Dave Longley made a surprising announcement about his personal health on tonight's newscasts: he's been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.  His story is the basis for a report called "Living with MS," which aired on the ABC affiliate this evening.

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Galaxy & CNY Central to Tip Off for Charity

SYRACUSE -- Radio versus TV... who will win?  You can see for yourself tonight when local broadcasting personalities from CNYCentral (WSTM/WTVH) television take on colleagues from Galaxy Communications radio.  They'll be playing basketball to raise money for Golisano Children's Hospital and for a local school teacher who's battling Lou Gehrig's Disease.

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ABC Names David Muir Sole Weekend World News Anchor

NEW YORK CITY -- Syracuse native David Muir, who worked for five years at WTVH, has been named the sole anchor for the weekend editions of ABC's World News.  He had been previously anchoring on Sundays.  In addition to picking up Saturdays, ABC is renaming the newscasts World News with David Muir.

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WCNY-TV Cancels One Show, Scales Back Another

SYRACUSE -- Citing a "decline in ratings and funding," WCNY-TV has cancelled WCNY Connected, a weekly lifestyle/entertainment show hosted by 93Q (WNTQ) morning co-hosts Ted Long and Amy Robbins.  Additionally, the station is pushing its long-running Central Issues back to its original weekly format, after trying out the show as a daily offering for awhile.

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FCC Planning National-Level EAS Test

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- There has never been a nationwide activation of the Emergency Alert System (EAS) or its predecessors, but that's going to change. Citing a desire to "determine the reliability of the EAS system and its effectiveness in notifying the public of emergencies and potential danger nationwide and regionally," the Commission has announced plans […]

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Fox 68 and My43 Reach Deal to Stay on Time Warner Cable

SYRACUSE -- Time Warner Cable says it has reached a long-term deal for rights to retransmit Fox 68 (WSYT), My43 (WNYS) and 26 other television stations owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group, in markets where Sinclair and Time Warner deal with each other.

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