WEAR's Eric Wellman has been awarded the Hearst Prize in radio journalism for his coverage of the Northeast blackout of 2003.
The kudos come with a $5,000 check for Wellman and also for Syracuse University. Wellman, a reporter for WAER, is a student at the Newhouse School.
Y94FM is dusting off its disco ball for the station's annual Disco Reunion concert Friday, August 6th at the State Fairgrounds.
This year's lineup includes The Ladies of Chic, Bonnie Pointer from the Pointer Sisters, Carol Williams from Odyssey, and Sal Soul Orchestra. The cover band Dyn-o-mite Disco Revue will also be on hand.
Howard Stern is not giving up.
Months after being kicked off of six Clear Channel stations across the country, the syndicated shock jock announced today his show will debut in nine new markets beginning in July. That's good news for Stern fans in Rochester which was one of the markets affected by Clear Channel's decision in February.
Stern's show continues to air on 95X (WAQX) in Syracuse.
Source (link may no longer work):
www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/06/30/stern.bush/index.html
Big Frog 104 (WFRG) welcomed a new morning co-host earlier this month. Kristie Waters jumps from middays at Galaxy's Rock 107 (WRCK) to pair up with Matt Herkimer. Waters replaces Lisa Webber who left for New England in April.
Over at Rock 107, the midday chair is now occupied by former WFRG/WFRY personality Matt 'Bullfrog' Raisman.
Kobe (Zimmerman) Austin is keeping himself busy out on the West Coast these days. The former Syracuse jock who got his start in radio on Z89 (WJPZ), 93Q (WNTQ), and Hot 107-9 (WWHT) has branched out into voiceover production work and acting in addition to gigs on the radio in Portland, Oregon and Boston.
All Access checks in with Kobe to get his perspective on the radio biz...
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allaccess.com
With cold temperatures and high winds the weather wasn't ideal, but that didn't stop thousands of country music fans from showing up at Verona Beach State Park last Saturday for FrogFest.
The annual outdoor concert, sponsored by Big Frog 104 (WFRG) and now in its 16th year, featured headliner Shenandoah along with several local country acts.
The Utica Observer-Dispatch has all the details.
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www.uticaod.com/archive/2004/06/20/news/35753.html
Syracuse native Tom Tradup has a new position at Salem Radio Network (SRN).
As director of network programming, he'll oversee content, direction and strategic planning for all of SRN's nationally syndicated talk shows and SRN's network news programming.
Tradup was news director at WRVO FM 90 in the late '70s.
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www.radioink.com/headlineentry.asp?hid=123137&pt=inkheadlines
570 WSYR's Sarah Buynovsky said goodbye to listeners Friday afternoon as she transitions to her new position in television news at Time Warner's New 10 Now.
Buynovsky, a reporter and afternoon news anchor for the news-talk station, received on-air well wishes from co-anchor Jules Thompson and Bill Leaf who put together a brief retrospective of her time at the station.
Joe Diffie headlined the 10th annual B-Jam country music outdoor concert this past weekend. The event, which is sponsored each year by B104.7 (WBBS), attracted about 6,000 people to Long Branch Park on Saturday.
Mark Bialczak of the Syracuse Post-Standard was there and reports that while the weather cooled off, the music sizzled.
Source (link may no longer work):
www.syracuse.com/entertainment/poststandard/index.ssf?/base/entertainment-7/1070618554203271.xml
Matt Johnson got his start in radio as an intern at WHEN in Syracuse while he was a junior in high school. He eventually wound up as a morning sidekick on Hot 107-9 (WWHT) before heading south to Jackson, Mississippi in 2001.
This week, All Access goes 'Ten Questions With...' Matt from his current gig as program director and afternoon drive jock at 94.5 KISS FM (WDKF) in Dayton, Ohio.
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allaccess.com