In an e-mail sent to its Listener Club today, Utica's Newsradio 950 WIBX says it will begin a two-week long food drive on Monday, to benefit the Community Food Bank of Greater Utica. WIBX is also promoting that it is the only radio station with live coverage of this year's Boilermaker Road Race.
There can only be one Picture of the Week, but we had two major radio events on the same weekend earlier this month. WFRG's Frogfest won the coin toss to be the POTW last week. This week, it's 93Q Balloonfest at Jamesville Beach Park.
Laura Ingraham's syndicator, Talk Radio Network, tells affiliates she will be back on the air by Monday... after a long absence which -- according to national radio columnist Tom Taylor -- angered many affiliates. Ingraham's show is carried in Syracuse, Utica and Watertown.
If you've never heard of WBLH... don't feel bad. Neither have we! But AllAccess.com reports Randy Michaels' Radioactive, LLC has agreed to LMA and eventually sell the station to Intrepid Broadcasting. So where exactly is WBLH?
After years of being one of the few Utica-Rome radio stations without a website, it looks like Arjuna Broadcasting's 92.7 The Drive (WXUR) is finally moving into the internet age. CNYRadio.com stumbled upon pages of the under-construction site during a Google search.
Don Imus is once again in the hot seat, defending comments he made during his nationally syndicated show Monday morning -- comments which some are saying, were racist in nature. Imus explains that wasn't his intent, and at least one prominent blogger takes his word for it. Imus is heard locally on 92.7 The Drive (WXUR) in the Utica-Rome market.
Even in its post-Clear Channel life, Remsen's 93.5 FM (WOKR) just can't seem to settle on one format for any significant legnth of time. Religious broadcaster EMF has LMA'ed the station out to a new network called "God's Country," featuring a different flavor of Christian music than WOKR's previous "K-Love" format.
As it gets later and later into June, many observers are watching and wondering: how come there's been no word yet from Clear Channel about B104.7's annual "BJAM" concert? Has this long-running tradition run its course?
Last weekend marked the 20th anniversary of Big Frog 104's "Frogfest Music Festival" at Verona Beach State Park. Instead of going for the usual "air staff plus celebrity" shot, we found a few listeners who went the extra mile to get into the Frog spirit.
NewsChannel 9's local talk show "Bridge Street" will be guest-hosted tomorrow by 93Q morning co-hosts Ted Long and Amy Robbins. Nothing yet on NewsChannel 9's Bridge Street website (as of 1:30pm today), but the longtime morning team has mentioned it on their own show.