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.
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.
'Big Frog 104 Cares for Critters Radiothon' got underway yesterday at 6 a.m. as WFRG personalities broadcast live from Utica's Sangertown Square Mall for the entire radiothon which runs until 7 p.m. Friday and from 9 a.m. - 7 p.m. Saturday. Money raised during the two-day event will be divided among several humane societies and animal shelters within Big Frog 104's immediate listening area.
FULTON - It's Patsy Cline and George Jones for 'The New AM 1300'. Fulton's WAMF 1300 AM (formerly WOSC and WZZZ) is up and running with a new format of traditional country music with Don DeRosa, the station's new owner, handling morning show duties.
The Syracuse radio community is offering its condolences to WSYR's Joe Galuski on the news of the passing his father on Monday. Calling hours for Henry J. Galuski, 74, are Wednesday from 4-7 p.m. at Welter-Price Funeral Home on James Street in Syracuse. Funeral services are scheduled for Thursday morning.
Most Central New York radio stations plan to memorialize and pay tribute to the victims of the terrorist attacks of one year ago with special programming today. The published schedule of events include...
After 30 years on WCNY (91.3 FM), broadcasts of Syracuse University's Thursday Morning Roundtable are moving to WAER (88.3 FM). According to WCNY station manager Paul Dunn, "everybody's happy" with the switch which will give Classic FM more hours of classical music and University Roundtable will now be heard on a station owned by the university itself. The weekly one-hour programs can be heard on WAER Saturday mornings at 11 a.m. beginning this weekend.