Galaxy Communications tells the Utica Observer-Dispatch it's had plenty of success with two of the stations it acquired from Clear Channel in 2007. The company also announced plans to bring its Gomez & Dave simulcast back to the Utica-Rome market.
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Galaxy Communications tells the Utica Observer-Dispatch it's had plenty of success with two of the stations it acquired from Clear Channel in 2007. The company also announced plans to bring its Gomez & Dave simulcast back to the Utica-Rome market.
UPDATE (4/23/08): The position has been filled. Looks like Whoopi Goldberg's about to get whooped in Utica/Rome -- Galaxy Communications has posted an "immediate opening" for a morning show host at WUMX Mix 102.5, one of the properties it acquired from ClearChannel last fall.
UTICA - Former ClearChannel "Sports Stars" stations WUTQ (1550AM) and WADR (1480AM) have flipped to a new "Beautiful Music" format, under its new owner, Roser Communications. The new lineup keeps longtime fixture Hank Brown in morning drive, followed by former WRUN-AM morning host Joe Graziano. The Utica Observer-Dispatch has the full story.
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Since 1969, WRVO has been broadcasting from SUNY Oswego's Lanigan Hall. Come this May, the public radio station will move to brand new studios in a different building on campus. A year-long capital campaign in 2004 raised a total of $330,000 for the studio upgrades which will include new digital studio equipment and a new, […]
Lite 98.7 (WLZW) has moved into the top spot in the Utica-Rome ratings. The adult contemporary Regent Communications station bumped its sister station, Big Frog 104 (WFRG), to second place. WIBX 950 AM moved up from sixth to third place giving Regent a trifecta win in the fall ratings period. It was also a good […]
570 WSYR has hired Erica St. James as the newest addition to its news staff. St. James had been news director at Regent Communications' WIBX AM 950 in Utica-Rome for just over a year. She moved to Central New York in 2003 from Wisconsin where she worked for a six-station cluster in Wausau/Stevens Point.
UTICA-ROME -- On the heels of last month's format switch at WUCL, comes word of several staffing changes at the Clear Channel cluster in Utica-Rome.
Northeast Public Radio is extending its affiliate network to the west into the Utica-Rome market. Regent Communications has sold WRUN for $275,000 to the Albany-based NPR cluster headed up by Alan Chartock. That brings to 13 the number of stations simulcasting programming from WAMC, the group's flagship station in Albany.