Y94FM (WYYY) has added Your Weekend with Jim Brickman to its Sunday morning lineup. The three-hour weekly show, hosted by the Windham Hill artist, replaces one hosted by fellow keyboard player John Tesh.

Y94FM (WYYY) has added Your Weekend with Jim Brickman to its Sunday morning lineup. The three-hour weekly show, hosted by the Windham Hill artist, replaces one hosted by fellow keyboard player John Tesh. Tesh's show can still be heard weekdays on Y94FM's overnight time slot.

The station's morning show is also undergoing some changes. News anchor Erin Covey exits to focus her efforts over at sister station 570 WSYR. Y94FM's midday personality, Kathy Rowe, picks up Covey's morning show news duties.

What is the state of news-talk radio in Syracuse, specifically the market's leader, 570 WSYR?

Bill LaRue of The Syracuse Post-Standard takes an in-depth look at the recent events that have put WSYR in the spotlight and gets reactions from former news director John Butler and current general manager Joel Delmonico.
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The departure of 570 WSYR's news director and afternoon anchor, Bill Carey, to Time Warner's new 24-hour news cable channel News 10 Now, left WSYR with some slots to fill.

Reporter Bill Colley has taken over afternoon anchor duties.

Meanwhile, veteran anchor and assistant news director Chris Weidman says the search for a news director continues. Weidman isn't looking at the top spot for himself, saying that his interests and talents lie with his role as primary anchor and that he is "content serving in the bridesmaid position" on the news department's management team.

Elsewhere in the newsroom, Ellen Abbott is returning as a reporter after a several year hiatus, and former WSYR reporter Adam Chodak has joined News 10 Now as a videojournalist.

The Federal Communications Commission has approved Galaxy Communications' request to move its TK-105 (WTKV) 6,000-watt transmitter from Oswego to Granby.

The move, which is scheduled to take place in the next couple of months, will improve reception of the classic rock station in southern Oswego County and northern Onondaga county.

For years, WTKV was owned by Robert Gessner and as WSGO was Oswego's primary locally-focused station. Galaxy bought the station in 1996.

Jason Kidd is on the move again.

The former Hot 107-9 (WWHT) program director and afternoon jock is headed back to his hometown of Baltimore where he'll take on programming duties at Clear Channel's Smooth Jazz WSMJ 104.3.

Kidd left Hot 107-9 for KISS 96-1 (WKST) in Pittsburgh in February 2002.

It's been a bad week for Rush Limbaugh.

The latest controversy involving the conservative radio talk show host is a report that he is being investigated for allegedly buying thousands of addictive painkillers from a black-market drug ring.

Limbaugh's show airs locally on 570 WSYR and WIBX 950.

The New York Daily News has more...
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Conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh has resigned from his position at ESPN following comments he made about former Syracuse University football quarterback Donovan McNabb.

Limbaugh said on ESPN television that "the media has been very desirous that a black quarterback do well", implying that the Philadelphia Eagles quarterback is getting special treatment because of his race.

The shift in format to urban adult contemporary at Power 106.9 (WPHR) also includes a new morning show.

The syndicated Tom Joyner Show is returning to the station's morning drive slot. Joyner's show was replaced by Doug Banks last year.

Clear Channel Communications' Syracuse market manager, Joel Delmonico, will address members of the Syracuse Press Club this Wednesday.

Delmonico should have plenty to talk about. The ongoing battles over media ownership, Newhouse Dean David Rubin's criticisms of 570 WSYR, Clear Channel's partnership with Destiny USA, and this week's changes at Hot 107-9 (WWHT) and Power 106.9 (WPHR) have all made headlines recently.

The SPC sponsored event gets underway Wednesday at noon at the Museum of Science and Technology (The MOST).