Utica

UTICA/ROME — You may have read in the national trades by now, about yet another round of cuts by Clear Channel. This time around, the cuts mainly targeted production staffers. One of those pink-slipped this week was Randy Spicer, who went to work for CC in Atlanta after more than a dozen years at Utica’s

UTICA/ROME — Bill Keeler’s new show, which streams online at MOVARadio.com, is already running into some information superhighway speedbumps.  Keeler says “it’s been impossible for me to keep up” after losing two staffers, including one who unexpectedly exited for a competing station.

UTICA/ROME — Dick Nellis, who worked at a number of Mohawk Valley stations including WLFH, WADR, WALY and WUTQ, has passed away.  Nellis, who also worked at stations in the Hudson Valley region south of Albany, was 70.

UTICA/ROME — You may remember reading here last week about big changes to the on-air branding of news/talker WIBX in Utica.  This week, the station unveiled a brand new logo to support those changes.

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

CENTRAL NEW YORK — If you’ve been away for awhile, CNYRadio.com is celebrating it’s 10th anniversary this week.  The site went live on March 1, 2001… and we’ve been running a series of special articles this week to mark the occasion.  Today, we finish up the series with our reflections and yours, on ten years

UTICA/ROME — Some slight confusion between two stations on adjacent frequencies has caused Arbitron to revise its audience estimates for the Utica-Rome market.  The revisions, due out Tuesday at 10:00am, are expected to result in higher numbers for adult standards B95.5/WUTQ/WADR.

SYRACUSE — One CNYRadio.com reader noticed our recent request for more “classic” shots.  Nick Caplan — or “Sick Nick” as he was known on WOLF 1490 back in the day — sent in a pair of pictures.  One from then, and one from now.

CENTRAL NEW YORK — All this week we’re celebrating the 10th anniversary of CNYRadio.com with a series of special reports.  Yesterday, several folks who’ve been in local radio for 10+ years explained why they feel consolidation was “the” biggest story from the past decade.  Despite the negative side of consolidation, most radio pros are optimistic for what’s

UTICA/ROME — It’s a busy week at Townsquare Media’s WIBX. After 76 years as an affiliate of CBS News, the station is now running Fox News Radio at the top of the hour. There’s also new imaging, a new station voice, and the staffers are gearing up for the station’s 40th annual Heart Radiothon this