WRVO FM 90 marks its 35th year on the air this year, a milestone that has the station looking to the future with a year-long fundraising campaign to update outdated studio equipment.
It is also a time to reflect. The current issue of Oswego Magazine takes a look back to the early years of WRVO including memories from station alumni like NBC's Al Roker and ESPN's Linda Cohen.
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oswegoalumni.oswego.edu/magazine/pdf/goodcompany.pdf
Syracuse may end up with the largest free country music festival in New York State. At least that's the goal.
The city is teaming up with Galaxy Communications for a one-day free concert at Clinton Square on July 10 featuring country stars Lee Greenwood, Marty Stuart, and John Anderson.
Galaxy president Ed Levine hopes to break even on his company's expected cost of $100,000 to stage the event.
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Saga Communications has picked four Ithaca radio stations as the company's first acquisitions in the state of New York.
Saga has agreed to buy Q-Country (WQNY), Lite 97 (WYXL), WTKOldies (WTKO), and WHCU 870 AM from Eagle Broadcasting. The deal should be completed by the fourth quarter of this year.
Saga owns radio stations in 24 other markets across the country.
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www.radioink.com/HeadlineEntry.asp?hid=122298&pt=InkHeadlines
Former American Idol contestant Kimberley Locke will headline the opening night of this year's Balloonfest in Jamesville next month.
The hot air balloon and music festival presented by Syracuse radio station 93Q marks its 25th anniversary on June 11-13.
Locke is one of 14 acts that will grace the main stage during the three-day event. Also on the bill: Toby Lightman, Five for Fighting, and Ben Jelen.
WRVO FM 90 has once again come out on top in the latest ratings for public radio stations in Syracuse.
While the station's 4.2 rating is a bit below where they were a year ago, they maintain a comfortable lead over Classic FM (WCNY) and Jazz 88 (WAER).
Visit our Ratings section for all the facts and figures.
Y94FM (WYYY) has a new morning team. Station management confirmed yesterday that Rick Gary will pair up with Kathy Rowe for the 5-9 a.m. shift beginning next Monday.
Gary, who has a long history in Syracuse radio, recently gave up his morning television duties at WIXT channel 9 where he still plans to unveil a weekday 12:30 show sometime in June.
After nearly a week of chatter and rumors about Y94FM (WYYY) and TK-99/105 (WTKW/WTKV), the cat is officially out of the bag. Well, sort of.
The Syracuse Press Club handed out its annual awards at a dinner on Saturday, May 8.
In the radio division, WSYR, WRVO, WAER, and WHEN all picked up awards. 570 WSYR's assistant news director, Chris Weidman, was also honored with the Selwyn Kershaw Professional Standards Award.
One of the hot issues discussed at a recent two-day meeting of 250 Clear Channel Communications program directors was the amount of commercials and "clutter" airing on the group's radio stations.
Clear Channel president John Hogan says changes are in the works. According to Hogan, the company will "demonstrably reduce the amount of commercial interruptions on our stations."
The complete text of Hogan's statement to Clear Channel clients is posted online.
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fmqb.com/goout.asp?u=http://rope.fmqb.com/site/pdfs/hoganletter.pdf
Sunny 102 (WZUN) has seen a slow steady increase in listenership over the past year and a half, but the Galaxy Communications station credits a recent television ad campaign featuring Juli Boeheim for giving the station an added boost into ninth place.
William LaRue of the Syracuse Post-Standard takes a look at how Sunny 102 and the rest of the Syracuse market stations did in the latest Arbitron ratings.
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www.syracuse.com/entertainment/poststandard/index.ssf?/base/entertainment-7/10838325062206617.xml