News items related to the Utica-Rome radio market. Counties: Herkimer, Oneida.
The Children's Miracle Network is $27,053 richer thanks to the efforts of Lite 98.7 at their third annual radiothon. The WLZW sponsored event held at Sangertown Square in New Hartford last Friday and Saturday topped last year's final tally by more than $10,000. All of the money raised will stay in the Mohawk Valley, benefiting […]
When K-Rock's Abbie Weber told the 20,000 on hand at this year's K-Rockathon to back away from the stage when the rain started to come down, the crowd chanted, "Hell, no, we won't go!". For more on that and other tidbits about last week's show, check out this week's Syracuse New Times...Source (link may no […]
After ten years at Lite 98.7 (WLZW), Trudy is moving on. The popular midday personality told listeners last week that she was recently married, and that her husband's job requires that they move out of the area.
It was more than just the music that was rocking the house at Vernon Downs on Saturday. As rain and thunderstorms blew through, concert officials stopped the show as most of the 20,000 in attendance at the day-long outdoor concert headed for the horse track's grandstands.
The Arbitron spring book is out for the Utica-Rome market and there weren't too many surprises. The top six stations all held their rank but Lite 98.7's comfortable three point lead over Regent sister station Big Frog 104 (WFRG) has shrunk to a half a point. Clear Channel had mixed results: 96.9 WOUR and KISS-FM […]
There are a couple of new Central New York radio airchecks at NortheastAirchecks.com as they add to their growing roster of sound clips from the past. Listen to Don Rossi on WFBL in Syracuse from 1980 and from Utica-Rome's WRUN, its a 1979 tape of Jeff Moulton.Source (link may no longer work): www.northeastairchecks.com
Conservative radio talk host Rush Limbaugh has signed on with ESPN to provide a weekly opinion piece on the network's Sunday NFL Countdown show beginning in September. Limbaugh, who is a huge football fan, says, "I get to take my observations from the living room couch to the ESPN studios and talk football with the […]
The lineup for this year's University Lectures series, which will be formally announced later today, includes writer and host of A Prairie Home Companion, Garrison Keillor. The dry-witted public radio broadcaster is scheduled to speak at Syracuse University's Hendricks Chapel on February 17, 2004. A Prairie Home Companion airs Saturday evenings and Sunday afternoons on […]
The lineup, or at least part of it, for the 8th annual K-Rockathon has been announced. Evanescence will headline the Augest 16th concert at Vernon Downs organized by K-Rock (WKRL/WKRH). Also along for the ride: Tantric, Saliva, Cold, Revis, Cauterize and Plan 607 who won a local competition to open the day-long event.
Laura Ingraham is switching syndication companies and moving her three-hour show to mornings. Ingraham is leaving Westwood One for Talk Radio Network and in the process her live show will shift from early evenings to the 9 a.m. - noon time slot.