570 WSYR has hired Erica St. James as the newest addition to its news staff. St. James had been news director at Regent Communications' WIBX AM 950 in Utica-Rome for just over a year. She moved to Central New York in 2003 from Wisconsin where she worked for a six-station cluster in Wausau/Stevens Point.
Just days after Adam 'The Bull' Gerstenhaber was let go by Regent Broadcasting, the sports announcer has signed on with Clear Channel's cluster in Utica-Rome. The Utica Observer Dispatch is reporting that Gerstenhaber has brought the Utica College play-by-play action with him. Games which had been airing on Regent's WRUN AM will now air on […]
2003 had its usual assortment of radio programming and staff changes locally. Here is CNY Radio's annual scorecard to help keep track of the ever-changing Central New York radio landscape.
It's been a bad week for Rush Limbaugh. The latest controversy involving the conservative radio talk show host is a report that he is being investigated for allegedly buying thousands of addictive painkillers from a black-market drug ring. Limbaugh's show airs locally on 570 WSYR and WIBX 950. The New York Daily News has more...Source […]
Art Bell is returning to syndication. The creator and former weeknight host of Coast to Coast AM will take over the weekend editions of the show which have been hosted by Barbara Simpson. George Noory will continue to hold down the fort during the week. Bell was quoted as saying that his return to radio […]
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 […]
Laura Ingraham is switching syndication companies and moving her three-hour show to mornings. Ingraham is leaving Westwood One for Talk Radio Network and in the process her live show will shift from early evenings to the 9 a.m. - noon time slot.
Without much fanfare, WRUN 1150 AM switched formats last week. The Utica-Rome station, which has gone through several format changes over the past few years, is now carrying ABC's Stardust satellite network and is being branded locally as "Velvet 1150, your unforgettable memories station."
Bill O'Reilly has debuted a new web site related to his daily radio and television programs. The site, www.billoreilly.com, has show and affiliate information, O'Reilly's bio, and for those interested, lists of his likes in music, books, and movies. O'Reilly's The Radio Factor airs daily on TalkRadio 1050 (WFBL) in Syracuse and NewsRadio 950 (WIBX) […]
Up until 9:14 a.m. last Saturday, it was a typical morning at CBS Radio for Peter King. "You could say my heart stopped for a minute," recalls the network news anchor who alerted listeners to a potential problem with the Columbia space shuttle. His reports aired around the clock for most of the day on […]