Category: Utica-Rome Radio

How do the latest radio ratings in Utica-Rome stack up? This week's Utica Observer-Dispatch takes a closer look at the spring Arbitron rankings for some key sales demographics and gets reactions from Clear Channel, Regent, and Galaxy management on what the numbers mean to them.Source (link may no longer work): www.uticaod.com/archive/2003/09/01/lifestyles/13947.html

WRVO FM 90 had its best Syracuse ratings in over two years this spring. Arbitron ranks the Central New York news/talk station as the number one public radio outlet in Syracuse with a 4.8 rating. Classic FM (WCNY) came in second with a 2.7, and Jazz 88 (WAER) scored a 1.1. In Utica-Rome, WCNY came […]

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 […]