UTICA/ROME -- Arjuna Broadcasting's 92.7 The Drive (WXUR) is taking applications for a job opening in the sales department. Here's the full job description as provided to CNYRadio.com by WXUR's Jack Moran.
UTICA/ROME -- Arjuna Broadcasting's 92.7 The Drive (WXUR) is taking applications for a job opening in the sales department. Here's the full job description as provided to CNYRadio.com by WXUR's Jack Moran.
UTICA/ROME -- Earlier this month, you read here that Kiss-FM (WSKS/WSKU) has started the search for a new night jock after Johnny Lew announced he's leaving the station. After nearly two years with the CHR station, Lew's last show is tonight.
UTICA/ROME -- Whitesboro native Vic Carucci, who hosts weekly shows on SiriusXM's NFL Radio channel and contributes to the Buffalo Bills Radio Network, is being inducted to the Greater Utica Sports Hall of Fame. The Utica Observer-Dispatch has details on Carucci's career, back to his beginnings as a sportswriter for the Utica Daily Press. The […]
UTICA/ROME -- Roser Communications Networks CHR Kiss-FM (WSKS/WSKU) is on the hunt for a new night host and webmaster, as Johnny Lew announces he's leaving the station. "After almost two great years," PD Shaun Andrews says Lew's last day is Friday.
UTICA/ROME -- The City of Utica is in line for some pretty positive attention in the national spotlight this summer. Interestingly, some might credit the well-publicized controversy over plans for a new mosque near Ground Zero in New York City earlier this year. Utica's the focus of an upcoming episode of State of the Re:Union, […]
COLUMBIA, MD -- While radio ratings in the nation's largest markets have been reliant on Portable People Meters (PPMs) for quite some time now, the numbers in many markets -- including Syracuse and Utica -- are still calculated "the old-fashioned way," with ratings diaries. But yesterday, Arbitron gave it's first public preview of "Project Leapfrog," […]
UTICA/ROME -- As reported here earlier, the call letters at WYFY/Rome will be changing before Bible Broadcasting Network officially hands the keys over to Tune In Broadcasting. Now, we know those calls: the station, sold in February for $90,000, is now WRUY. According to this week's edition of NorthEast Radio Watch, BBN swapped the calls […]
NEW YORK CITY -- CBS News national correspondent Jim Axelrod has a new book, released earlier this week. Axelrod, formerly of Syracuse's WSTM and Utica's WUTR, describes how the memory of his late father inspired him to turn things around -- for his marriage, his career and his personal health.
UTICA/ROME -- An employee of Galaxy Communications has been sent to the Oneida County Jail after police say he stole more than $3,000 from the company. Michael Hance, 32, is facing two felony charges -- one for allegedly taking the money and one for trying to cover it up.
SYRACUSE -- Top journalists from Syracuse and surrounding markets gathered for the Syracuse Press Club's 33rd annual Scholarship and Professional Recognition Awards Dinner last night at Drumlins Country Club in Syracuse. Public stations WRVO and WAER dominated the radio categories, while there were plenty of ties for winners in the television categories.