The New York State Associated Press Broadcasters Association made its annual award presentations earlier this month in Lake Placid. Among the big winners are Central New York radio stations 570 WSYR, WRVO FM 90, and WIBX 950.

Three LaFayette teenagers died Tuesday when their car was hit by a tractor-trailer on Route 20. One of the victims, Jessica Flegal, 16, was the daughter of WIXT TV 9 news anchor Rick Gary. Flegal was a junior at LaFayette High School, played basketball for the school, and was on the high honor roll. Rick Gary spent a number of years in Syracuse radio at WOLF and 570 WSYR.

B104.7's evening air personality, Skip Clark, has taken on the added responsibilities of assistant program director. As if that isn't enough to keep him busy, Clark is also the station's music director. We'd like to know how he fits that all on his business cards.

Listen for a new voice on TK-99's morning show starting July 1. Marne Mason of Pensacola, Florida takes over as the show's news anchor/sidekick. Mason fills the spot vacated by Lauren Rody who recently moved to Texas.

'Jam', as in 'jam-packed', seemed to be an appropriate word for yesterday's B104.7 B-Jam concert held at the Center of Progress Building at the New York State Fairgrounds. The day-long event, moved inside from Cole Muffler Court because of heavy rain on Friday, was a tight squeeze for the crowd on hand, but there was plenty of country music to go around.

Next month, the WRVO stations will begin "playing the Fool." Financial experts David and Tom Gardner, whose commercially syndicated Motley Fool Radio Show was canceled last September, resurrected the program in January on National Public Radio (NPR) stations across the country. Locally, WRVO FM 90 and its affiliate network will begin airing the weekly one-hour show on July 6 at noon, a time slot formerly occupied by Sound Money.

After 27 years The Ackerley Group is no more. Clear Channel Communications, which completed its acquisition of the company on Friday, now has 12 months to divest itself of radio and/or television stations in five markets across the country in order to remain within federal ownership guidelines.

B104.7's annual summer outdoor concert at the New York State Fairgrounds is moving inside. Due to heavy rains on Friday which left the field at Cole Muffler Court soggy and the risk for showers this weekend, B-Jam, featuring Diamond Rio and Confederate Railroad, gets underway Sunday at noon inside the Center of Progress Building.

On the heels of wrapping up WAER's weekly show Women's Voices, Lorraine Rapp is launching a new line of skin care products. The former 95X personality writes in to the Syracuse New Times to thank them for helping to kick-start her new venture...

Former Y94FM and 570 WSYR operations manager, Bob Neil, has filed to sell 167,645 shares of Cox Radio Class A common stock worth nearly $5 million. Neil, who is the radio group's CEO, was recently ranked eighth in a list compiled by Radio Ink magazine of the top 40 most powerful executives in the radio industry. He spent time in Syracuse in the early 1980s when WYYY and WSYR were owned by New City Communications.