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).

This Sunday marked Trudy's 10-year anniversary with Utica's Lite 98.7 (WLZW). The station surprised her on the air Friday morning with a 10-minute montage featuring greetings from current staff members as well as past WLZW personalities including Randy Jay, Jeanne Ashley, and J.P. Hastings.

News and public affairs station WRVO FM 90 has devoted much of its programming over the past three weeks to the war in Iraq. William LaRue of the Syracuse Post-Standard spoke with program director John Hurlbutt about listener reaction and WRVO's plan to shift back toward more regular programming.

The war coverage has also caused the station to once again move back its spring pledge drive which is now scheduled for April 24-26.

With Matt 'Bullfrog' Raisman's move from Utica-Rome to the afternoon slot at Froggy 97 comes additional shift changes at WFRY. Former afternoon driver Mike 'Webb Foote' Stoffel jumps to middays and picks up assistant program director duties, while Cricket hops from middays to pair up with James Pond in morning drive.

The sounds of Broadway are coming to Watertown beginning April 20. 790 WTNY has added Broadway's Biggest Hits to the noon slot of its Sunday lineup. The syndicated show, which is hosted by Bud Wilkinson, now airs on nine New York State stations including WTLA in Syracuse and WTLB in Utica-Rome.

For anyone who couldn't get near a television set last night, or for those still without power, forced to listen to the game on battery operated radios or in their cars, there were a lot of choices to hear the Syracuse University Orangemen win the NCAA men's basketball national championship.