Watertown engineer Michael Ring, whose work on rebuilding the WTNY tower was featured in our most recent Picture of the Week, writes in with some important information to help fellow engineers using the new Broadcast Tools DSC20 dual satellite controller.
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A CNYRadio.com reader tells us Stephens Media Group's WVLF ("The Valley 96.1") in Norwood flipped formats Monday. After stunting all weekend, the station has traded in its Mainstream AC playlist for a Hot AC library, and a new name: "Mix 96.1." And some suspect Stephens could be making even more changes...
Many folks in radio don't get the 4th of July off, so we're not taking it off either! We're going back 10 years for this Picture of the Week, the rebuilding of the WTNY/Watertown tower, after it was destroyed in an unforgettable ice storm earlier that year.
UPDATED (1:05PM) - The 2008 New York State Broadcasters Association "Awards for Excellence in Broadcasting" have been unveiled. We now have a complete list of winners, and they include stations in all four markets we cover... for a total of 11 radio awards, and at least 2 TV awards for former radio reporters.
WOTT program director Lance Hale gets some national exposure -- he's this week's rock radio subject for "10 Questions" on AllAccess.com. We'd post a direct link, but as you may have guessed, AllAccess will just redirect you back to their homepage and force you to login first anyway. So you'll have to login over there, and find the article yourself.
According to the Drudge Report, Premiere Radio Networks and Rush Limbaugh have signed a deal that will keep "America's Anchorman" on the air through the year 2016, and "the package is valued north of $400 million, according to media insiders."
WSLU in Canton, the flagship of North Country Public Radio, has won five Regional Edward R. Murrow Awards for Excellence from the Radio & TV News Directors Association (RTNDA). One of those went on to win a National-level Murrow. The winners list was announced Tuesday.
He's known mostly for his 46 years working at NewsChannel 9 (WSYR-TV) in Syracuse. Mike Price is retiring from full-time work as of this Thursday. Why are we reporting on the retirement of a TV personality? You may not remember it, but he does have ties to local radio as well.
Galaxy Communications' network of sports radio stations in the Utica-Rome market have added Bob Costas to their weekend lineup. They're among the latest affiliates of "Costas on the Radio," syndicated by Premiere Radio Networks.