Category: Syracuse TV

TK-99 morning man Glenn 'Gomez' Adams has signed with WTVH TV 5 to take part in client-sponsored segments on the station's Central New York Live! program. The move helps to more clearly define the line between news and sponsored content as Donna Adamo, who remains the host of the hour-long daily show airing at 5 […]

Sunny 102.1's Big Mike is this week's guest host on WTVH 5's Freaky Flix and Food. Mike and co-host Chef William from the Wagner Winery will cook up something tasty while presenting the 1977 gruesome B-movie 'The Worm Eaters.' Show time is 11:30 this Saturday night, February 15 on channel 5. Since last month's departure […]

Clear Channel Communications has retained Pat Pagano as the weather forecaster of choice for mornings on 570 WSYR, but for the rest of the day, WIXT TV 9 meteorologists now handle the task. With Clear Channel's acquisition of WIXT, Pagano was not surprised with the move. WSYR's programming head, Rich Lauber, has no complaints with […]

Local meteorologist Tom Hauf has been promoted from morning television duties at WTVH 5 to the coveted evening slot. The switch in shifts won't affect his duties at TK-99,

WIXT TV 9 sports reporter and anchor Jim Lerch has been named the new program director at SportsRadio 620 WHEN. While at channel 9, Lerch presented the NewsChannel 9 'Athlete of the Week' award every Wednesday and also anchored 'Friday Night Fever' coverage during the high school football season. Jim also works as a play-by-play […]

Veteran Syracuse broadcaster Sheryl Nathans announced this week that she has incurable lung cancer and has moved into a Pennsylvania hospice to "go as gently into the night as I can."

Local television news legend Ron Curtis died yesterday after a year-long battle with cancer. Curtis, who began his long television career at channel 5 in 1960, started out in radio at the age of 15 when he dropped out of Solvay high school to take an announcing job at WFBL AM.