Category: Utica-Rome Radio

UTICA-ROME -- Gary "Big Poppa" Spears probably had no idea what he was in for this morning, when he mentioned that today, Leap Year Day, also happens to be the birthday of rapper Ja Rule.  The rapper, serving time at Mid-State Correctional Facility in nearby Marcy, heard the mention on-air, called-in and chatted with Spears […]

SYRACUSE -- After a few weeks off, The Irish Power Hour has a new radio home in Syracuse... and a chance to pick up some new fans in the Utica market.  Starting this Sunday, co-hosts Sean Johnston and Cabrina Gilbert bring their weekly hour-long show to Galaxy's TK99/105 (WTKW/WTKV).  It'll be simulcast on Utica's 96.9 […]

UTICA-ROME -- It appears that WRUY 1450 is closer to getting back on the air.  We've received reports of the station running a loop of "national" PSAs over the weekend, along with an ID for "WRUY 1450AM Rome, Utica, Syracuse, NY."

WASHINGTON, DC -- Plans for a proposed new AM radio station in Saint Johnsville are dead.  In a four-page ruling issued today, the Federal Communications Commission sealed the fate of what would have been 1120 WKAJ.  The FCC confirmed its earlier ruling that the station's expired construction permit will not be reinstated.

UTICA/ROME -- The locally-owned Roser Communications Network, which operates a cluster of radio stations and an advertising agency in Utica, is looking to hire an on-air personality.  But, for the time being, the company isn't specifying which station has the opening.

SYRACUSE -- Whether you enjoy public broadcasting on a daily basis, or only once or twice a week, chances are you're not too pleased whenever you tune-in your favorite programs, only to find they've been interrupted, delayed or pre-empted by a pledge drive.  But WRVO says it'll limit its spring on-air fundraising to just one […]

SYRACUSE -- Journalism majors who maintain a permanent address anywhere within the Syracuse Press Club's 21-county service area are invited to apply for the club's annual DeVesty-Williams scholarship.  Applications are being accepted now for the $2,000 award and materials should be submitted as soon as possible.

UTICA-ROME -- If you're a fan of either country music or the Fox TV series "Glee," you're familiar with the Toby Keith song "Red Solo Cup."  So it's only appropriate for Bug Country 99.7 and 101.1's Dave Silvers and his wife Sandy to be holding a couple of the famous cups when they met the […]

UTICA/ROME -- Several months after new owners took over WRUY 1450 in Rome, the station remains silent.  The FCC originally issued a mid-January deadline for the station to resume broadcasting, but days before the deadline, the Commission approved a request to push the deadline out a few more months.

CENTRAL NEW YORK -- In various ways, radio stations (even some who don't normally play her music) went out of their way to respond to the death of singing superstar Whitney Houston.  The winner of six Grammys and one Emmy (and more than 400 other awards) died at the age of 48 on Saturday night, […]