After a weekend of spinning a "Wheel of Formats" -- everything from polka music to classical -- WRBY 102.5 FM in Utica-Rome has officially flipped formats from country to hot adult contemporary.

Clear Channel is stunting in Utica-Rome this weekend. Friday afternoon's on-air anouncement that Bob 102.5 (WRBY) will ride off into the sunset was followed by a 'Wheel of Formats' starting with a nod to New Rock 105 'The Dog' (WWDG) by airing rock songs and redirecting the station's web site to WWDG's home page.

After Laura Ingraham switched syndicators last year, her show dropped from the radar screen in Utica-Rome. Fear not, Ingraham fans, she's back on WIBX AM 950.

After Laura Ingraham switched syndicators last year, her show dropped from the radar screen in Utica-Rome. Fear not, Ingraham fans, she's back on WIBX AM 950.

Ingraham takes Dr. Laura Schlessinger's 9 a.m. - noon weekday time slot, leaving Schlessinger without a home in Utica-Rome.

Elsewhere at the station, Adam the Bull joins Mary Ann Hartley as co-anchor of the WIBX 5:00 News Hour while anchor Jon Meyer moves to Regent Communications' sales department.

570 WSYR host Joe Galuski has picked up an extra hour of talk each weekday morning.

The 15-year veteran of the station has tacked on the 9 o'clock hour to his morning schedule. Galuski's hour of talk replaces Kathy Denman's call-in show which shut down last week following her move to Clear Channel's new Total Traffic Network department.

Beginning next week, Syracuse will have another local news-talk choice in the morning.

TalkRadio 1390 WFBL's revamped morning show will be hosted by the station's new news director, former 570 WSYR newsman Bill Colley. Don't expect the ranting and raving heard on most other talk shows though, Colley hopes to provide a forum for in-depth discussions of the news of the day.

William LaRue of the Syracuse Post-Standard has more...
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The Central New York radio community said goodbye to two broadcast veterans this year.

2003 had its usual assortment of radio programming and staff changes locally.

Here is CNY Radio's annual scorecard to help keep track of the ever-changing Central New York radio landscape.

Earlier this month TalkRadio 1050 WFBL became TalkRadio 1390 when the news-talk format on 1050 AM moved up the dial. The 1050 AM frequency, which changed call letters to WSEN AM, continued to simulcast the talk format until this week when it flipped over to a simulcast of FM sister station Oldies 92.1 (WSEN).

WSEN AM/FM had simulcast the same signal for years until 1050 AM switched to an adult standards format after Buckley Broadcasting purchased the WFBL call letters in the early '90s.

Rush Limbaugh says he will appeal a ruling by a Florida judge that says he must release his medical records to prosecutors investigating possible drug-related crimes.

The conservative talk-show host believes that Democrats are out to get him. According to Limbaugh, "The Democrats in this country still cannot defeat me in the arena of political ideas, and so now they are trying to do so in the court of public opinion and the legal system."
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