As one might expect, Clear Channel Entertainment has a history of partnering with its own local radio stations to help publicize concerts and events which the entertainment conglomerate promotes. That type of collaboration already exists in the Syracuse market, and Clear Channel's Syracuse manager Joel Delmonico looks for it to continue once the company begins promoting events at the proposed Destiny USA shopping and entertainment complex.
The radio industry's leading trade publication, Radio & Records, has announced the list of nominees for its annual Industry Achievement Awards. The list includes three nods for Syracuse active rocker 95X (WAQX).
It looks like Clear Channel Communications will not have to sell any of its broadcast properties in Syracuse or Utica-Rome thanks to a new ruling from the FCC which is expected to be announced on June 2.
Former Utica-Rome jock Bud Money is the latest addition to B104.7's on-air roster. Money, who recently moved back to Central New York from Tampa, Florida where he worked for Clear Channel's Thunder 103.5 (WTBT), can be heard Saturday nights and Sunday afternoons on WBBS.
Money also runs the mobile disc jockey service Phonix Sound as well as several Utica-Rome radio tribute web sites.
Bob 102.5 (WRBY) is dropping syndicated evening jock Lia to make way for Mark Weston. Weston will also continue to oversee the Sports Stars Radio Network on Utica-Rome sister stations WADR, WRNY, WUTQ, and WLFH as well as concentrate on production duties.
Beginning April 28, NewsTalk 920 WKRT will add the syndicated Dead Doctors Don't Lie to its schedule. The MLM Radio Networks show, hosted by Dr. Joel Wallach, will air at 6 p.m.
Developers of the planned Destiny USA multi-purpose entertainment and shopping complex have announced they will pair up with Clear Channel Worldwide to manage several performance venues ranging in size from 500 to 40,000 seats.
Clear Channel Communications owns 18 radio and television stations in the Syracuse and Utica-Rome markets.
570 WSYR afternoon talk show host Jim Reith has some listeners fuming over comments he's made concerning the war in Iraq and Syracuse University basketball coach Jim Boeheim, and for his censoring of listener postings to the show's online forum.
Dick Burch, who worked in several major radio markets, spent time at Syracuse's WHEN in the early 1970s. Bob Mitchell has unearthed a nearly 18 minute aircheck of Burch whose morning show, which featured his risque and corny humor, helped transition WHEN from an old line middle of the road station to one with a more modern style adult contemporary format.
The aircheck, which also includes some great 1970s style commercials, is featured this month on NortheastAirchecks.com.
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Oldies 92.1 (WSEN) has a new voice on the weekends: 'The Real' Jeff Moulton has joined the station's roster of weekend/fill-in jocks. Moulton, who worked at several Utica-Rome stations in the 1970s including WTLB, WRUN, and WLFH, was most recently on the air at Rochester's oldies station 93 BBF (WBBF).