Our friends over at CNYMedia.com unveiled a new look this past week. The web site, which provides listings for radio and television stations in Central New York, has been around since 1996, and site manager Steve Medicis felt it was time for a new interface with better navigation. Medicis worked in conjunction with CNY Observer and InterActive Websites in developing the new design and programming enhancements. CNYMedia.com is not affiliated with CNYRadio.com.
In Arbitron monthly trend numbers released yesterday, Oldies 92.1 picked up 1.3 ratings points to bring them into a tie with 570 WSYR for fifth place in 12+ overall numbers. WSYR slipped 1.2 points. K-Rock also showed improvement with a 0.8 ratings point increase. Monthly trends are not necessarily an indicator of quarterly ratings results which are due out October 23. Check out www.rronline.com for all the numbers.
Pat Kelly, afternoon drive guy at Utica's 107 WRCK, is packing his bags and heading down the Thruway to Albany for new digs at the Galaxy group of stations there. Kelly takes over the afternoon drive slot on WRCZ FM as well as production director duties for all of the stations in the Albany cluster.
The web site dedicated to the history of one of the early AM radio stations in Syracuse has added some more images from the past. Look for new photos of Rick Ryder as well as tribute pages to the legendary Dick Clark and Bud Ballou who all spent time at WOLF 1490 AM.
Don't miss Scott Fybush's excellent look back at the 80-year history of WSYR AM. The legendary Syracuse station is Fybush.com's most recent 'Site of the Week'.
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www.fybush.com/site-020919.html
Kevin Michaels slides into K-Rock's evening shift vacated by J.J. Herr's move to mornings a couple weeks ago. Michaels makes the move from Hagerstown-Chambersburg, MD-PA where he was a parttimer at Hot AC Mix 95.1. His first night is Wednesday 9/25.
Scarborough Research has released results of a nationwide study of rock music fans and their active lifestyles. Syracuse and Minneapolis were rated highest for concentration of rock fans with 38% of listeners tuned into rock formatted stations. The study also found that 58% of rock listeners are more likely to fall into the Generation X age group of 18-34.
Nationally syndicated veteran newsman Paul Harvey received a Marconi Award at this week's National Association of Broadcasters conference in Seattle. Harvey, who can be heard three times daily on 570 WSYR in Syracuse, was named Network Syndicated Personality of the Year.
The Syracuse radio market passed a milestone over the weekend, marking the 80th anniversary of the sign on of the area's first radio station. It was on September 15, 1922 from his estate off Route 13 in Cazenovia that Clive Meredith, for the first time, flipped the switch at station WMAC. Six years later, Meredith moved WMAC's transmitter to the top of the Hotel Syracuse and changed the station's call letters to WSYR. A shift in frequency from 1330 to 570 AM followed in 1931.
After a four-month hiatus, the women's issues oriented weekly talk show Women's Voices returns to WAER 88.3 FM on October 10. The show will go by a slightly different name, Women's Voices Radio, to distinguish it from a new television version of the show, Women's Voices, which debuts next week on Time Warner Cable.