SYRACUSE -- The word from New Rock 105 (WWDG) station management is that Scorch is in the dog house for playing the song "F--- You, B--- Me!" during his shift.

AUBURN, NY -- Heather Lardeo, a 12-year-old Auburn resident, is off to Anaheim, California this weekend to compete with seven other contestants in a national singing competition sponsored by Radio Disney.

Rick Sommers, a part-time and weekend jock for New York City's 106.7 Lite FM (WLTW), is leaving the station for graduate school and a return to stand-up comedy.

Sommers began his radio career in the early 1980s at Ithaca's WTKO as Ricky King. Rick's brother is Syracuse radio veteran Peter King.

SYRACUSE -- Jazz 88 (WAER) has relocated its studios and offices for the fourth time in its 56-year history.
The new facilities are in Half Hall at the northeast corner of Euclid and Ostrom avenues. Lack of space at the station's previous home in SU's Newhouse building was the main reason for the move, that, and the Newhouse School was in need of additional space in its building.  Source: Syracuse New Times

MONMOUTH, NJ -- Phil LoCascio, a former Y94FM (WYYY) air personality who now programs WCHR-FM in Monmouth, New Jersey, says that his station has banned Jethro Tull's music forever.

MONTROSE, AL -- Chester Whiteside certainly made his mark in Syracuse.  Whiteside was the city's first black disc jockey, working at 570 WSYR and 1260 WNDR during the 1960s, its first black television commentator, and Syracuse's first black firefighter. He also played a key role in establishing the Jerry Rescue monument in Clinton Square.  Whiteside died Monday from cancer at 82 in Montrose, Alabama.

Rush Limbaugh is set to check out of drug rehab and plans to return to his daily radio show on Monday. Limbaugh's brother, David, said Rush is "chomping at the bit to get back on the air."

The syndicated conservative talk show host has been in a drug treatment program for five weeks to help kick his addiction to prescription painkillers.
Source (link may no longer work):
www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/11/12/limbaugh.painkillers.ap/index.html

SYRACUSE -- Oldies 92.1 (WSEN) is swapping out specialty shows on its Monday night lineup. Beginning this week, Ross Brittain's Hit Machine, which features music from the 1970s, replaces Jack Dean's Keeping the '70s Alive every Monday at 9 p.m.

UTICA-ROME -- WIBX AM 950 has a new news director. The Utica-Rome news-talk station welcomes Erica St. James who hails from Wisconsin where she worked for a six-station cluster in Wausau/Stevens Point.
Erica's hiring will no doubt come as good news to the staff who have been keeping the gears turning in the news department since the exit of former news director Scott Carr and afternoon anchor Jim Knapp.

WIBX AM 950 has a new news director. The Utica-Rome news-talk station welcomes Erica St. James who hails from Wisconsin where she worked for a six-station cluster in Wausau/Stevens Point.

Erica's hiring will no doubt come as good news to the staff who have been keeping the gears turning in the news department since the exit of former news director Scott Carr and afternoon anchor Jim Knapp.