SportsRadio 620 is giving local racing fans a forum to discuss motor sports with the launch of a new weekend call-in show.
Earlier this month the station debuted On Victory Lane, a one-hour news and interview show hosted by Rob Searle and area track announcer Doug Elkins.
Catch the show every Sunday at 10 a.m.
The Syracuse SkyChiefs have signed a new multi-year agreement with TalkRadio 1390 WFBL to carry SkyChiefs baseball beginning in 2004.
Play-by-play announcer Bob McElligott will return for a fifth straight year. Opening day at P&C Stadium is April 8.
WFBL had been the home of Syracuse baseball for a number of years in the past, most recently in 1984. Announcers of note during those years include Marv Albert, Sean McDonough, Hank Greenwald and John Harmon.
It's that time of year once again, and area stations are out and about with plenty of live music and cheap breakfasts leading up to Christmas day.
Here's what we've got so far...
After nearly a year and a half of local talk in the morning, Kathy Denman's one-hour show on 570 WSYR will be no more.
Denman will focus her efforts in her new role as director of an expanded traffic reporting department for the cluster of Clear Channel stations in Syracuse.
No word yet on WSYR's plan for the weekday 9 a.m. time slot.
Buckley Broadcasting is after a bigger chunk of the news/talk radio audience in Central New York and has looked down the dial for help.
On the heels of moving its talk programming from 1050 AM to the stronger 1390 AM frequency it recently acquired from Crawford Broadcasting, WFBL has hired Bill Colley to be the station's news director and morning show host. Colley had been 570 WSYR's afternoon news anchor.
After nearly ten years in Syracuse radio, TK-99/105 (WTKW/WTKV) afternoon jock Rick Deyulio has decided that it's time to move on.
"I'm sad to leave," says Deyulio, "but feel that it's time for me to go back to school and get the degree that I never got years ago."
Gary Nolan, a local talk show host for 62 WHEN during the early '90s, is making a run for president as a Libertarian.
William LaRue of the Syracuse Post-Standard has more on the former Republican who switched party alliances in part because of discussions he had with Libertarians on his Syracuse radio show.
Source (link may no longer work):
www.syracuse.com/entertainment/poststandard/index.ssf?/base/entertainment-6/106499733451530.xml
It's that time of year again. Dick's Sporting Goods in Clay is the location of this weekend's 95X (WAQX) Rock Auction to benefit the Make-A-Wish Foundation.
This year's roster of items up for bid includes a Carmello Anthony autographed lithograph, a Stonesour guitar, and a BeetleJuice (the Stern show regular) DVD. Listeners can bid online all week or at Dick's this Friday through Sunday.
Last year's event raised nearly $17,000.
After a 15-year break from radio, former 62 WHEN newsman Dave Bullard has joined the news staff at 570 WSYR, handling midday anchor duties during the week.
Bullard, who also worked for WTVH TV 5 and has been the managing editor for online daily local news sites for Fulton, Oswego, and Baldwinsville, says, "After five years of small business ownership, it's time to begin socking a few bucks away for my 9th grader's college education."
Sunny 102 (WZUN) morning man 'Big Mike' Fiss has once again put together a holiday CD featuring local talent, but this year's offering has a twist. Instead of relying on his standard crop of local artists, Fiss decided to turn to area teens.
Big Mike's Christmastime in Syracuse Volume 9... Our Schools brings together 17 area high school choruses and the Colgate 13 from Colgate University, who, beginning in October, gathered at Music Mania in Baldwinsville to record 18 songs, everything from "Amazing Grace" to "Santa Baby."