The lineup for this year's University Lectures series, which will be formally announced later today, includes writer and host of A Prairie Home Companion, Garrison Keillor. The dry-witted public radio broadcaster is scheduled to speak at Syracuse University's Hendricks Chapel on February 17, 2004.
A Prairie Home Companion airs Saturday evenings and Sunday afternoons on WRVO FM 90.
The lineup, or at least part of it, for the 8th annual K-Rockathon has been announced.
Evanescence will headline the Augest 16th concert at Vernon Downs organized by K-Rock (WKRL/WKRH). Also along for the ride: Tantric, Saliva, Cold, Revis, Cauterize and Plan 607 who won a local competition to open the day-long event.
Bob Brown is back spinning oldies at WSEN. The veteran Syracuse jock had been helping out over at Sunny 102.1 (WZUN) for a few months earlier this year, pinch hitting for Marty Santy on afternoons.
In addition to his part-time/swing work at Oldies 92.1, Brown stays busy heading up his local theater company Opening Night Productions.
Laura Ingraham is switching syndication companies and moving her three-hour show to mornings. Ingraham is leaving Westwood One for Talk Radio Network and in the process her live show will shift from early evenings to the 9 a.m. - noon time slot.
K-Rock (WKRL/WKRH) isn't ready yet to tell us who will be performing at this year's K-Rockathon, but modern rock fans can at least circle their calendars in pen.
The annual summer concert returns to Vernon Downs this year on Saturday, August 16. To help keep traffic under control, attendance at the day-long event will be capped at 25,000.
Sister Clear Channel stations 570 WSYR and Power 106.9 (WPHR) will air a 7-hour radiothon this Sunday to help raise money for the planned WWII Minority Veterans Wall of Honor to be placed in the Convention Center at OnCenter.
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Controversial radio talk show host Michael Savage was let go from his weekend show on the MSNBC television cable news channel this week after referring to a caller as a "sodomite" and wishing he would "get AIDS and die."
Savage's syndicated radio show airs in Syracuse on 570 WSYR and on NewsTalk 920 (WKRT) in Cortland.
96.9 WOUR officially turned 30 on June 3rd, but the party to celebrate the milestone runs all summer as the Clear Channel rocker has special events planned through September.
Without much fanfare, WRUN 1150 AM switched formats last week. The Utica-Rome station, which has gone through several format changes over the past few years, is now carrying ABC's Stardust satellite network and is being branded locally as "Velvet 1150, your unforgettable memories station."
They were "just having fun" and didn't expect to make it past the first round, but Plan 607 won the whole shooting match in this year's K-Rock battle of the bands. The band picked up $1,000, studio time at Utica's Fat Boy Studios, and will open the 2003 K-Rockathon.
Nathan Turk of the Syracuse New Times takes a closer look at this year's competition...
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