The SkyChiefs have a new radio home. After being dropped from SportsRadio 620 WHEN last month, team management inked a one-year deal with ESPN Radio 1260 WNSS to broadcast the team's 144 regular-season games.

Syracuse morning radio veteran Bill Baker returns to the airwaves of Central New York today as midday host at Classic FM (WCNY 91.3 FM).

Local singer-songwriter Ashley Cox appeared recently on Howard Stern's nationally syndicated morning show. Cox, who described the experience as "awful", took part in an on-air contest during the show's recent trip to Las Vegas.  (Link to a New Times article posted at rway.com is no longer active.)

Following the death earlier this month of Syracuse radio legend 'Dandy Dan' Leonard, Syracuse New Times writers Allen Czelusniak and Bill DeLapp have put together a retrospective of Leonard's career which included a stint as a New Times writer in the 1970's.  (Link to original article at rway.com is no longer active.)

With the recent installation of a new 35,000 watt propane-powered generator at its main transmitting facility, WRVO will now be able to continue broadcasting its signal during emergency power outages.

Syracuse-based Galaxy Communications has completed its purchase of WHTR-FM in Corinth for $2.4 million. Within the next few weeks expect a new antenna in Rotterdam, a new city of license in Scotia, and a change in frequency from 93.5 to 93.7.

Sports broadcaster Jim Rome has inked a new multi-year deal that will keep him on the radio for some time to come. Rome, whose nationally syndicated show is heard locally weekday afternoons on SportsRadio 620 (WHEN), had spent the past several weeks deciding whether to focus his time in radio or television. With the new radio deal, Rome will end his television show The Last Word on Fox Sports Net TV sometime this year.

Hot 107-9 program director and afternoon jock Jason Kidd has signed on as the new program director at fellow Clear Channel station KISS 96-1 (WKST) in Pittsburgh. Until a replacement is found here in Syracuse, Kidd will continue his Hot 107-9 programming duties remotely from his new digs.

All Access is reporting that Hot 107-9 program director and afternoon jock Jason Kidd plans to leave Syracuse, though they won't say where he's headed. According to All Access, "Kidd has been earning a ton of frequent flier miles these days and enjoying fine airport cuisine up and down the east coast."

Sunny 102's morning show producer Bruno Schirripa was featured yesterday in a Channel 3 Action News report on a local effort to train airline personnel on in-flight defense tactics.