Last week's Syracuse New Times featured the winning entries in the paper's annual Syr-Haikus competition. 93Q's Ted Long was featured in the celebrity category.

Bob Mitchell's WOLF 1490 AM tribute site has added a slew of new photos, airchecks, and information related to the "glory days" of one of Syracuse's most successful AM stations.

In numbers released yesterday for phase 2 monthly trends for the Winter 2002 Arbitron ratings period, compared to the fall quarterly numbers, WSEN FM 92.1 showed the largest increase by picking up 1.3 ratings points. Of the top seven stations in the Syracuse market, only 570 WSYR lost ground with a drop of a half a point.

FULTON -- Fulton's WZZZ 1300 AM has been bought for $300,000 by a former manager of the station. Don DeRosa was general manager of the 1,000 watt AM, at the time known as WOSC, along with Magic 104.7, WKFM in the early 80's. DeRosa also spent time at WPTR in Albany during the 60's and WTLB and WRUN in Utica.

The Syracuse SkyChiefs kick off their 2002 season this afternoon at 2 p.m. against the Rochester Red Wings. Beginning this year, ESPN Radio 1260 (WNSS) takes over as the radio broadcast home of the team with Bob McElligott announcing the play-by-play action.

Utica-area afternoon talk show host Phil Stern finished up his run on 1310 WTLB last Friday. Look for Stern to resurface soon at a station outside of Central New York.

Rumors are out that Tom Joyner's syndicated morning show will be dropped by Power 106.9 (WPHR) to make room for Doug Banks.

Yesterday on Jim Reith's afternoon talk show, the 570 WSYR host fielded calls from listeners who were irate over a new state law that banned smoking, drinking, and eating while driving. The law was actually a hoax announced by Ted and Amy earlier in the day on Citadel's Top 40-formatted 93Q (WNTQ). Reith, not realizing it was an April Fools' gag, said he hadn't heard of the new law but was in favor of it.

Archive article reposted with help from volunteer Tim Sinclair.

As usual, 93Q's Ted and Amy were in prank mode today with their annual April Fools' Day hoax. This year's stunt was a report that New York lawmakers had outlawed eating, drinking, and smoking while driving a car. Command Traffic's Tony Bombardo played along as well by reminding morning commuters of the law that supposedly took effect on April 1.

Syracuse radio veteran Bob Brown is back in town from his national tour of Funny Girl in which he played the lead role of Nick Arnstein. Brown returns to the Salt City stage this weekend in his annual appearance as the lead in Jesus Christ Superstar.