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
Donald Trump seems to be everywhere these days, and beginning in June he may be coming to a radio near you.
Trump has partnered with Clear Channel Communications to produce daily 60- to 90-second radio commentaries called "Trumped!"
The Syracuse Post-Standard reports that 570 WSYR will probably carry the segments during Joe Galuski's morning drive shift.
Oldies 92.1 (WSEN) bounced back from its lackluster performance in the fall book and jumped three spots in the rankings to fifth place in numbers released yesterday by Arbitron.
Perennially strong B104.7 (WBBS) proved once again that its spot as the clear leader in the market is unchallenged. The country station's 12.7 rating in 12+ numbers puts it 5.5 points ahead of second place 570 WSYR.
Sunny 102 (WZUN) earned a 3.4 and moved into ninth place with its sixth up book in a row.
There's a new voice in the late night hours of the weekend on 570 WSYR.
Syracuse University sophomore Steve Flamisch, 20, has been named weekend overnight news anchor at the news-talk station. Flamisch worked most recently as a reporter for WAER FM 88 and was a summer reporter/anchor for Millennium Radio New Jersey, a 13-station network in the tri-state area.
When her plans to head to physical therapy school went dark, Erin Bristol turned to radio, and she's never looked back.
Bristol, program director and midday jock at New Rock 105 (WWDG), is profiled this week on All Access. Find out how a girl from Shreveport, Louisiana wound up on 'The Dog' in Central New York.
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allaccess.com
Sunny 102 (WZUN) is looking to fill the '80s void on Friday nights.
Beginning this weekend, Sunny 102 is adding two syndicated shows featuring the music from the decade of hair bands and leg warmers to its Friday night lineup. From 7 - 9 p.m. it's Backtrax USA, followed by Nina Blackwood's Absolutely '80s until midnight.
Just last week Y94FM (WYYY) put its locally produced Friday Night at the '80s show on ice after moving John Tesh to weekday evenings.