Updated 11/21 at 8:30pm: ITHACA -- There's more new information tonight surrounding the recent exit of morning host/PD Justin Wright from ROI Broadcasting's Z95.5 (WFIZ). Station management has some corrections to information we had been provided and reported earlier. They've also provided us with an official job posting to fill the vacancy.
SYRACUSE -- Starting next week, fans attending Syracuse University basketball games will hear the voice of Galaxy Communications VP/Programming Mimi Griswold over the public address system. The announcement makes her the first woman to become a permanent PA announcer in the Carrier Dome's 30-year history.
UTICA-ROME -- Today is the 20th anniversary for Regent AC Lite 98.7 (WLZW). For today's Picture of the Week, we're re-running an old POTW from the original CNYRadio.com, when the station celebrated 15 years on the air. Also Inside: a rundown of the personalities-from-the-past who will be returning to the Utica airwaves for the "20th Anniversary Reunion Work Escape Weekend," and an announcement from your CNYRadio.com Editor.
About 300 country stations nationwide -- including three in Central New York -- are hunting for new programming to fill their weekend schedules after Premiere Radio Networks cancelled the long-running "Jeff Foxworthy Countdown" today.
UTICA-ROME -- At least three people were pinkslipped from the on-air lineup at Regent's Oldiez 96 (WODZ) today... but Regent had no control over the changes. The decision was made by Citadel Media, who supplies the station's syndicated "Classic Hits" satellite feed outside of morning drive.
UTICA-ROME -- There are two more places on the FM dial to find wall-to-wall holiday tunes in the Mohawk Valley starting today -- the pair of "Bug Country" stations owned by Roser Communications Network. But WBGK/Newport and WBUG/Fort Plain are remaining in-format...
NEW YORK CITY -- Our congratulations to longtime Syracuse TV and radio broadcaster Rick Gary -- one of several personalities inducted to the New York State Broadcasters Association Hall of Fame last night, during a ceremony at The Paley Center for Media.
ITHACA -- At first glance, you might think of WVBR as "just a rock station" operated by the Cornell Radio Guild, a non-profit organization that is mostly comprised of Cornell University students (though not owned by the university). But in fact, WVBR offers much more than just music...
SYRACUSE -- There are now two AC stations in the market offering Christmas music around the clock: Clear Channel's Y94FM (WYYY) flipped the switch today.
YAKIMA, WA. -- Former Citadel Syracuse GM Reggie Jordan is on the move again. And this time, he's moving, far, far west. Specifically, to Yakima, Washington, according to radio-info.com. Jordan has been named VP and Market Manager for a 6-station cluster owned by New Northwest Broadcasters. Jordan arrived in Syracuse in 2001, and left a little over a year later for another Citadel cluster.