News items related to the Utica-Rome radio market. Counties: Herkimer, Oneida.
Utica's Lite 98.7 has a new program director. Afternoon personality Peter Naughton gets the nod to fill the spot vacated by Randy Jay who left at the end of August. The station is still on the lookout for a new morning man to take over Jay's on-air duties.
Utica's Big Frog 104 does some shuffling of its on-air lineup. Bullfrog moves from morning sidekick to afternoons while Lisa Webber jumps in as Matt Herkimer's new morning show co-host as of this week. Webber (Lisa Reily), most recently on the air at 107.7 WGNA in Albany, will also handle information update duties and the […]
Lots of shifting of schedules over at Utica's KISS-FM. Grace Kruz (Amber Taylor) exits middays to make way for Stew Schantz up from afternoon duties which are now being handled by the former evening pair of Roadrunner and 'Kenny the Promo Guy'. Late nighter Shaun Andrews moves to evenings.
K-Rock's recently ousted morning man isn't out to burn any bridges, opting not to go into the details of his exit from the station. Word from Galaxy's Ed Levine on the end of Scorch's nearly eight-year run is that, "We tried to work with him ..., playing more music and playing more requests, but it […]
Syndicated radio host Delilah gets some press in this week's People magazine. Heard by over seven million listeners weekday evenings in 225 markets nationally, including Lite 105.9 in Syracuse, WARM 93.5 in Utica, and Magic 103.1 in Watertown, Delilah thanks her listeners who "bring great joy to my life."
Pat Kelly, afternoon drive guy at Utica's 107 WRCK, is packing his bags and heading down the Thruway to Albany for new digs at the Galaxy group of stations there. Kelly takes over the afternoon drive slot on WRCZ FM as well as production director duties for all of the stations in the Albany cluster.
'Big Frog 104 Cares for Critters Radiothon' got underway yesterday at 6 a.m. as WFRG personalities broadcast live from Utica's Sangertown Square Mall for the entire radiothon which runs until 7 p.m. Friday and from 9 a.m. - 7 p.m. Saturday. Money raised during the two-day event will be divided among several humane societies and […]
Most Central New York radio stations plan to memorialize and pay tribute to the victims of the terrorist attacks of one year ago with special programming today. The published schedule of events include...
K-Rock and Scorch have parted ways. After a couple year run as morning man of the modern rock station, he's on the street with evening guy J.J. Herr getting up early to take his place.
If your web surfing finds you at any of the sites for the four Utica-Rome stations owned by Regent Communications, you might notice some changes. The newly unveiled sites for Oldiez 96, Lite 98.7, Big Frog 104, and WIBX 950 offer better navigation and more information.