After Vernon Downs and Griffiss Business and Technology Park turned down requests to host Galaxy Communications' summer music festival, the K-Rockathon finally has a date for the prom.

It's called the 'Four Corners Tour', and for motorcycle enthusiasts around the United States, it's a great way to see the country. WSEN/WFBL chief engineer Al Jenner left earlier this week for the month-long trek that will take him and a fellow biker to the four corners of the country and many states in-between.

Art Zimmer's musical revue of the 1950s, Cruzin' Thru the '50s, debuted to a sell-out crowd last weekend at the Syracuse New Times Theater. The show features cameos from several area radio personalities including Ted, Amy, Pete, Brenda, Gary Dunes, and Big Mike. The Syracuse Post Standard has two reviews of the sold-out show which runs through this weekend.

The New York Post is reporting that Citadel Communications has plans to go public. Barely a year after buying the radio broadcast group, Forstmann Little & Co., led by senior partner Teddy Forstmann, thinks it's time to sell. Forstmann Little is planning a July IPO from which it hopes to raise $500 million. Market analysts value Citadel's chain of 205 radio stations, which includes four in the Syracuse market, at between $2.5 and $2.75 billion.

While still a teen, Peter Cavanaugh began following in the footsteps of his late father, Daniel, by taking a job as a disc jockey at WNDR 1260 AM. In his new book, Local DJ, published by Xlibris, Cavanaugh traces his radio career from his start in Syracuse in 1957 to stints in Flint, Michigan, Cincinnati, and other cities in-between.

Hoping that a less stuffy approach to serving up classical music on the radio might help attract the more casual classical listener, WCNY 91.3 FM has made a conscious effort to loosen up its on-air sound, and it looks like its working. From the addition of upbeat announcer Bill Baker during the midday hours, to Bill Shedden's morning Sousa march to get everybody up and going at 7:45, listeners seem to be responding; the station saw a 12% increase in its fundraising campaign held earlier this month.

More details about SportsRadio 620's mysterious new afternoon sports talk show Bud and the Manchild are gradually being revealed on the station's web site. The new show, which debuts next Monday, will be hosted by the station's new program director Jim 'the Manchild' Lerch, and Syracuse Post Standard sports columnist Bud Poliquin.
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sportsradio620.com/bud_show.html

Bud Wilkinson's syndicated Broadway's Biggest Hits finds a new home this weekend in Syracuse and Utica. In the wake of WFBL 1050 AM's switch to news-talk last week, the weekly Broadway music oriented show can now be heard on Galaxy Communications' WTLA 1200 AM and WSGO 1440 AM from noon to 2 p.m. on Saturdays and on WTLB 1310 AM on Sundays from 8 until 10 a.m.

All dressed up with nowhere to go, K-Rock's annual summer music festival needs a new location to set up shop. Earlier this month, officials at Vernon Downs turned down Galaxy Communications' request to hold July's K-Rockathon at the harness-racing track; last week, Griffiss Business and Technology Park announced it wasn't prepared to get knee-deep in the hoopla in light of the crowd problems it had with Woodstock 1999.
Source (link may no longer work):
newtimes.rway.com/2002/051502/chatter.shtml

Central New York's only classical music station got a big thumbs up from its listeners during a recent membership campaign. CLASSIC FM raised over $60,000, money that will help pay the public radio station's operating expenses.