A day after Premiere Radio Networks announced the cancellation of Leeza Gibbons' Hollywood Confidential, we find out the reason why.  Gibbons has signed with Westwood One to host a five-hour nightly show called Leeza at Night.

B104.7 (WBBS) has been nominated by the Country Music Association (CMA) as one of the best country stations in the nation.

B104.7 is one of five stations up for the medium market station of the year award at this November's 38th Annual CMA Awards to be held in Nashville.

The station's morning team of Ron Bee & Becky Palmer were also nominated for personalities of the year for medium sized markets.
Source (link may no longer work):
www.cmaawards.com/2004/nomWin/38thWinBroadcast.asp

Cortland's News Talk 920 WKRT debuts a new morning show next week.

Kevin Mooney hosts Mooney in the Mornings weekdays from 6 - 9 a.m. The new local show replaces Doug Stephan's syndicated program Good Day.

Mooney, a graduate of SUNY Oswego's broadcasting program, has worked for WFAN AM in New York City and was the producer of The Jim Reith Show on 570 WSYR in Syracuse for several years.

Former K-Rock (WKRL/WKLL) morning jock "F'n Kevin" Klein is keeping busy these days in New York City. Klein, who recently left his digs in Syracuse for the Big Apple, has been heard on XM Radio's MTV and VH1 channels and on New York's 92-3 K-Rock (WXRK). WXRK is the home base of the syndicated Howard Stern Show.

Clear Channel Communications announced last month that, beginning next year, its roster of 1,200 radio stations across the country will scale back the amount of commercial minutes aired each hour.

How does that affect the seven stations owned by Clear Channel in Syracuse?

The Syracuse Post-Standard got the scoop from Syracuse Clear Channel market manager Joel Delmonico. Other local station managers also weigh in on what it all means.
Source (link may no longer work):
www.syracuse.com/entertainment/poststandard/index.ssf?/base/entertainment-7/1086424655124550.xml

Chris Halen has been away from the Central New York radio scene for a few years after leaving the overnight shift at 95X (WAQX) for WNSA in Buffalo.

He's back though, this time at sister Citadel Communications station I-100 (WIII) in Cortland as the classic rocker's morning sidekick and midday jock.

WRVO FM 90 continues to lead in the public radio segment in the Syracuse radio market with a 4.2, while Classic FM (WCNY) topped the Utica-Rome ratings. In Ithaca, WEOS, which scored a 7.0 audience share, had a strong spring 2004 book.

For all of the public radio station ratings, check out our ratings section.

Howard Stern's syndicated morning show was a big winner locally in the latest ratings released by Arbitron.

The shock jock's program, which airs on 95X (WAQX), moved into the top spot in the morning ratings race with a 15.1 percent share of listeners 12 and older, up from a 10.9 share three months before. Stern bumped Ron Bee and Becky Palmer of B104.7 (WBBS) to second place.

The Syracuse Post-Standard has more on the latest local ratings.
Source (link may no longer work):
www.syracuse.com/entertainment/poststandard/index.ssf?/base/entertainment-7/1091870349223761.xml

A who's who of Syracuse radio gathered last weekend for a look back at one of Central New York's legendary radio stations: WOLF 1490 AM.

Red Parton, Rick Gary, Ron Bee, Don Bombard, Peter King, and many others were part of the daylong festivities including a live broadcast and luncheon.

Scott Fybush takes a closer look at the get-together in this week's Northeast Radio Watch.
Source (link may no longer work):
fybush.com/nerw.html

It was another good book for Regent in Utica-Rome. In numbers released last week by Arbitron, Big Frog 104 (WFRG) and Lite 98.7 (WLTW) held on to their first and second spots respectively despite a slight slip in audience share.

The debut of Clear Channel's Mix 102.5 (WUMX) as a Hot AC alternative seems to be working; the station moved up from a 3.1 to a 4.2 following its format switch from country earlier this year.