UTICA-ROME -- The celebration on "Keeler in the Morning" on 92.7 The Drive (WXUR) didn't last very long this morning. Shortly after thanking listeners for pledging $15,000 for the American Red Cross to help recent fire victims in Utica, personnel inside Keeler Productions on Genesee Street had to be quarantined due to a terrorist threat.
UTICA-ROME -- Less than a week after Kiss-FM (WSKS/WSKU) night jock "Intern Dave" Wheeler was shown the door from the Roser Communications Network duo, there's a new personality on the air. But don't count on meeting Jackson Blue at any station remotes -- it's a long drive from Texas.
UTICA -- Longtime Mohawk Valley fixture Bill Keeler moved his show over to Arjuna Broadcasting's WXUR almost two years ago, but many listeners may not have noticed until earlier this month -- when the station's transmitter moved northwest from Frankfort to the more-popular Smith Hill, overlooking Utica from the north.
SYRACUSE -- The Baldwinsville Messenger finally caught up with the recent sale of WSEN, WSEN-FM and WFBL. A report published last week offers some new minor details about the transition, but little in the way of significant information that wasn't already published on this website nearly a month earlier.
BOONVILLE/LOWVILLE -- Looks like "The Moose" (WBRV/WLLG) is scaling back on local programming. Mike Szewil from CNY TV News says he was listening when host George Harrington recently announced the final edition of "North Country Classics." Harrington had the 1-3pm shift since former host Kenny Youngs died earlier this year. The Moose, owned by Flack Broadcasting, is simulcast on 101.3 WBRV Boonville and 99.3 WLLG Lowville.
UTICA-ROME -- With all the changes in the staffing lineup at Kiss-FM -- over the past few months and this week alone -- it was practically a given, we'd have to take a look back at "the way things were" for our latest Picture of the Week.
UTICA-ROME -- Less than 24 hours after he announced plans to reduce his involvement at Kiss-FM (WSKS/WSKU) to weekends and fill-ins, former nighttime jock "Intern Dave" Wheeler tells CNYRadio.com he has been fired from the station.
ITHACA - We're a couple days late on this one: W254BF, the former Power 106.9 (WPHR) translator located at 98.7 on the FM dial in Ithaca, is indeed being sold by Clear Channel to Saga Communications. We told you last week that Saga used the outlet to launch a new AAA-formatted station branded as "98.7 The Vine."
SYRACUSE -- Former Ithaca morning show host Mark Vanness excitedly writes CNYRadio.com today: "I got a J-O-B!" Not only did he find a way to get back into radio on a full-time basis; he's making a rather significant market rank jump as well.
Updated 9/17 with arrangements - UTICA-ROME -- NBC affiliate WKTV is reporting the death of retired local broadcaster Jack Fredericks, at the age of 84. Fredericks spent most of his long career at the TV station atop Smith Hill, but he broke into the business while he was still in high school, as an announcer for WIBX.