Category: Utica-Rome Radio

This Sunday marked Trudy's 10-year anniversary with Utica's Lite 98.7 (WLZW). The station surprised her on the air Friday morning with a 10-minute montage featuring greetings from current staff members as well as past WLZW personalities including Randy Jay, Jeanne Ashley, and J.P. Hastings.

With J.J. Herr's move to North Carolina, K-Rock is shuffling its jock schedule. 'Silent Bob' Staffa moves from middays to fill Herr's Total Request Morning duties. The station is also bringing back Rainman to afternoon drive, a shift he hosted from 1999-2001. "When K-Rock offered me the chance to kick itin afternoons in Central New […]

Tickets go on sale this Saturday for K-Rock's 'Spring Thing' to be held May 17 at Cole Muffler Court at the New York State Fairgrounds. Chevelle and Unloco, two bands that are part of this year's Ozzfest tour, headline the show. Also on the roster: (Hed)PE, Pacifier, Off By One, and K-Rock's house band, Thunderosa.

UTICA -- Former Rock 107 (WRCK) morning man Bill Keeler has filed a $500,000 lawsuit against his former employer. The lawsuit, filed in Herkimer County Supreme Court March 21, claims Keeler was wrongfully terminated by Galaxy Communications. Galaxy's president, Ed Levine, said the company plans to file a counter lawsuit against Keeler soon.

The FCC plans to do some additional "concentration analysis" of the proposed station swap involving nine stations in Duluth, MN and Evansville, IN. If the deal is approved, former Regent Communications Watertown cluster manager Bob Dakin will have five new stations to look after in Evansville. Regent owns nine stations in Watertown and Utica-Rome markets.

With both NPR and the BBC planning extensive coverage of the war in Iraq over the next few weeks, public radio station WRVO has decided to put its spring fund drive on hold until next month. The on-air campaign which was set to start last Saturday will instead begin on April 9. In a statement […]

Big Frog 104's afternoon jock, Matt 'Bullfrog' Raisman, is headed to Watertown in a deal that sends Froggy 97 (WFRY) morning man, Bean Pole (Tom Jacbosen), to Utica as the cluster's new operations director and WFRG afternoon guy. Raisman, who picks up program director duties at WFRY and ESPN Radio 1410 (WNER) and the afternoon […]

Former Rock 107 (WRCK) jock and longtime Mohawk Valley radio personality Bill Keeler is headed to television.

Gary Kennerknecht, a former Utica-Rome radio and television journalist, died of cancer on 2/24 in the Bronx. Kennerknecht, who got his start in broadcasting as a jock at WOUR, moved on to news, first as news director at WRUN and WTLB, then switching over to television at WUTR. He later moved to Rochester and then […]

It looks like Bob Dakin will be busy over the next few months. Dakin, who up until last week was general manager of Regent Communications' Watertown cluster, will have an armful of new stations to manage in Evansville, IN. Regent announced this week that, pending approval, they plan to exchange four Duluth, MN stations and […]