Peter Cavanaugh was a local DJ at WNDR nearly 50 years ago at the start of his radio career. He chronicles his time spent in Syracuse and in other markets in his book "Local DJ."
Through mid-February, Cavanaugh is reading the book in 28-minute segments Mondays through Fridays on WDET in Detroit. There's no need to head west to hear him though, the programs are also streamed on the Internet at wdetfm.org.
Source (link may no longer work):
www.wdetfm.org/dris/listen.php
UTICA-ROME -- On the heels of last month's format switch at WUCL, comes word of several staffing changes at the Clear Channel cluster in Utica-Rome.
Syndicated radio host John Tesh is heading to Southeast Asia next week to help in tsunami relief efforts.
Tesh, whose nightly radio show is heard on Y94FM (WYYY) in Syracuse, leaves for Sri Lanka on Saturday as part of "Operation Blessing" where he and his family will spend a week overseas.
During his stay, Tesh will broadcast his syndicated program remotely from Sri Lanka.
Northeast Public Radio is extending its affiliate network to the west into the Utica-Rome market. Regent Communications has sold WRUN for $275,000 to the Albany-based NPR cluster headed up by Alan Chartock. That brings to 13 the number of stations simulcasting programming from WAMC, the group's flagship station in Albany.
Howard Stern is back from his two week vacation, but not in the five markets where Citadel Communications had been broadcasting the shock jock's show.
Howard Stern is back from his two week vacation, but not in the five markets where Citadel Communications had been broadcasting the shock jock's show.
For the past two weeks 95X (WAQX) has been airing bits of the Opie and Anthony Show instead of Stern repeats, but with Stern's return this morning, Citadel Communications has decided not to air the show. According to Stern, Citadel chief Farid Suleman is asking for payment of $200,000 for all of Stern's on-air mentions of Sirius Satellite Radio.
Source (link may no longer work):
syracuse.com/entertainment/poststandard/index.ssf?/base/entertainment-8/1104831380306030.xml
Former 570 WSYR weekend news anchor Maria Leaf has moved to Washington, DC to join the news team at WTOP and its sister station Federal News Radio.
Leaf, a SUNY Oswego Communications graduate, also worked as a producer for WIXT NewsChannel 9's "Your Stories" segments in Syracuse before moving on to anchor the morning news on WGY in Schenectady nearly two years ago.
Federal News Radio can be heard on the web at federalnewsradio.com.
Lite 105.9 (WLTI) morning man Dave Allen got a surprising email Sunday from Chris Xaver who was vacationing in Thailand when the catastrophic tsunami hit.
Xaver, a former WTSM news reporter and substitute radio newscaster on 93Q (WNTQ), was caught up in the surge along with her husband and was trapped for 30 minutes under piles of debris.
Today's Syracuse Post-Standard has more.
Source (link may no longer work):
www.syracuse.com/news/poststandard/index.ssf?/base/news-1/1104237514167950.xml
After two years as Kool 93.5, WUCL has flipped formats from a blend of oldies to classic hits and has become The River 93.5.
Jack Moran, the station's program director and afternoon host, says the goal of the new format is to offer music from a broader range of artists including Jimmy Buffett, Little Feat, and Bob Marley. As for the station's imaging, expect "no hype, no nonsense
It's that time of year again. What better way to celebrate the holidays than with a cheap breakfast and plenty of live music.
Syracuse radio stations are once again spreading Christmas cheer with live remote morning broadcasts on the eve of the holiday. 93Q (WNTQ) takes its show to Driver's Village while Oldies 92.1 (WSEN) hosts an event at LeMoyne Manor.
The week's Syracuse New Times has a rundown of the schedule of events.
Source (link may no longer work):
newtimes.rway.com/2004/122204/chatter.shtml