Public television and radio talk show host Tavis Smiley will be offering a free lecture at Syracuse University later this month.  His syndicated radio show is heard on public radio stations in the Ithaca-Cortland and Watertown markets.

Syracuse's B104.7 (WBBS) has been nominated in both of the broadcast award categories for the 2008 Country Music Awards.  The station is up for one award, and morning co-hosts Ron Bee and Becky Palmer are up for their own award.

The office of New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is reportedly opening an investigation into the methodology behind Arbitron's Portable People Meter (PPM) system.  The probe will focus on whether the PPM puts minority-oriented stations at a disadvantage.  (Updated 12:30pm with Arbitron response.)

Mere hours after we learned of WRVO's new HD channel, the station informs us they're looking for a new host/producer for the local segments of "Morning Edition."  That's because longtime host John Hurlbutt plans to retire at the end of the year.

There's more options for public radio fans near Oswego; WRVO recently started broadcasting in high-definition, allowing the addition of a subchannel called WRVO-2.  Managers say the second channel is only carried by its Oswego signal now, but there are plans to expand the HD network to some of WRVO's sister stations throughout the region.

What a slooooow week this was!  We only had one new story since last week's POTW.  It was such a slow week, we had to go back in time for the latest POTW.  We found this one at the Utica AM Radio Website, and the owners could use some help identifying one of these guys.

K-Rock middayer and acting PD "Ty" has accepted a new job in Baltimore, according to the national trades.  She'll be doing middays at alternative rocker Channel 104.3 (WCHH).  In addition to the on-air shift, she'll serve as APD and MD for the Clear Channel station.

Every station in Syracuse is live at the State Fair this week.  Here's one of them.

After disappearing for ten years, Galaxy Communications has revived "Fireworks Over Central New York," which took place yesterday at the Herkimer County Fairgrounds in Frankfort.  The Utica Observer-Dispatch has a report on the event, followed by a mixture of positive and negative reviews from readers.

Time flies when you're having fun... hard to believe it's been six months since the reincarnated CNYRadio.com went live.  This last month was a pretty busy one too... despite being a little out of the loop while taking a summer road trip, we managed to break a new record.  Details in our monthly look at the site's most popular articles, searches and other miscellany.