It's facelift time for K-Rock's web site. The newly designed site serves as a portal to the K-Rock stations in Syracuse, Oswego, Utica-Rome, and Albany, all of which are owned by Galaxy Communications.

Check it out at www.krock.com.

Big Frog 104 (WFRG) welcomes back David Hopperfield who hops into the 7 p.m. to midnight shift beginning this week. A familiar voice to WFRG listeners, Hopperfield worked at the station a few years back before Bullfrog's arrival.

Sid Rosenberg has been axed from Don Imus' syndicated morning show. The New York Post initially reported that the move was an on-air surprise to Rosenberg, but that angle on the story turned out to be a hoax. Rosenberg, who is being replaced by sportscaster Mike Breen, gets to keep his WFAN midday show.

Imus in the Morning airs in Syracuse on SportsRadio 620 (WHEN) and WXUR in Utica-Rome.

There's a new, old familiar voice on TK-99's evening shift. Mimi Griswold, host of the station's popular Sunday morning show The Blue Moon Cafe, can now be heard from 7 p.m. to midnight weeknights on the classic rock formatted station.

The latest monthly radio trends for Syracuse were released yesterday, but because of an embargo placed on the market by Arbitron, none of the numbers are publicly available.

The Syracuse market is not in the dark alone; the numbers for Buffalo and Rochester are also under a lockdown.

A little shuffling in 570 WSYR's evening lineup means lights out for Dr. Laura Schlessinger in Syracuse. The news isn't too good for Laura Ingraham either who gets bumped to Schlessinger's 10 p.m. start time.

Michael Savage, who joins a growing list of conservative talkers on WSYR which includes Ingraham, Rush Limbaugh, and Glenn Beck, takes over Ingraham's weekday 7-10 p.m. time slot.

The official response from Clear Channel Communications to yesterday's rule changes by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is that the commission chose politics over the public interest and that radio listeners will be the "ultimate victims."

What does today's ruling by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) mean to radio in Central New York? Not much. The easing of ownership restrictions approved by the commission deals primarily with television and newspaper owners.

Power 106.9 (WPHR) program director Butch Charles has been awarded a professional fellowship by the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB). The grant, which comes from the NAB's Education Foundation, will be used to help defray the costs of attending the NAB Management Development Seminar for Radio and TV Executives.

Power 106.9 was one of four stations in the country who received the fellowships this year.

Kevin LeGrett is leaving his position with Infinity Broadcasting as general manager of the company's four-station cluster in Rochester to become a regional vice president at Citadel Communications. LeGrett will work out of Buffalo and oversee Citadel's Buffalo, Syracuse, Ithaca, and Binghamton markets.

Citadel owns six stations in the Syracuse and Ithaca markets.