2002 had its fair share of format flips, staff changes, and a few pink slips. Here is CNY Radio's annual scorecard to help keep track of the ever-changing Central New York radio landscape.
2002 had its fair share of format flips, staff changes, and a few pink slips. Here is CNY Radio's annual scorecard to help keep track of the ever-changing Central New York radio landscape.
The Radio Factor comes to Utica beginning today. Bill O'Reilly's syndicated talk show airs on NewsRadio 950 (WIBX) weekdays from 3 - 5 p.m. As a result, Clark Howard's consumer and financial advice show moves to the 8 - 9 a.m. weekday time slot.
Here are CNYRadio.com's picks for the top ten national radio news stories of 2002 that were also of local interest in the Central New York radio markets.
Over the past year, Central New York saw new rock, news-talk, and oldies stations, some legal wranglings,and radio stations coming together to help the community. Here are CNYRadio.com's picks for the top ten local stories of the year relating to the Central New York radio markets.
With WARM 93.5's switch to oldies last week, the Utica-Rome market has been Delilah-less. Not to worry, Lite 98.7 (WLZW) has picked up the syndicated evening host as of the first of the year.
There's a new oldies station in Utica-Rome. WARM 93.5 flipped from adult contemporary to Super Hits of the 60s and 70s to become Kool 93.5 FM. Along with the switch comes a call letter change for the Clear Channel station from WRFM to WUCL. Legendary morning man Greg McShea takes over mornings, with current WARM […]
Dr. Laura Schlessinger said today that she was horrified over the "tragic circumstances" of the recent death of her mother. Yolanda Schlessinger was apparently murdered in her home a few weeks ago; her body was not discovered until this week. The famed radio talk show host, who had been estranged from her mother for years, […]
Former WTLB midday personality Bob O'Donnell passed away recently in Bonita Springs, Florida after a battle with cancer. O'Donnell, who worked at the Utica station during their Top 40 days of the late 60s and early 70s, originally made his mark as part of a folk music trio, The Windgate Singers. After his run at […]
Come the first of the year, syndicated talk show host Art Bell will sign off for good, and his web site www.artbell.com will go dark forever as well. According to Bell, the site, which is jammed full of articles and photos covering the topics discussed on his show over the past six years "will never […]
Bob 102.5 (WRBY) in Rome welcomes Paul Koffy as the station's new midday jock. Koffy, who hails from Greenville, South Carolina, took over from Shelly Easton in October.