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.

Veteran Syracuse broadcaster Sheryl Nathans announced this week that she has incurable lung cancer and has moved into a Pennsylvania hospice to "go as gently into the night as I can."

The Syracuse Post Standard's online web site Syracuse.com has created a new forum dedicated to the discussion of local and national radio and television. It didn't take long for the message board to heat up; the second message questions friction between K-Rock (WKRL/WKRH) and 95X (WAQX). Lurk or chime in at: www.syracuse.com/forums/tv.

In a surprise move yesterday, it was announced that Farid Suleman is leaving his position as head of Infinity Broadcasting to run Citadel Communications.

Dan Leonard brought rock and rock to Syracuse radio and went on to become one of the market's legendary jocks. Leonard, who spent 27 years on the air in central New York starting in 1954 at WNDR, died Feb. 11 from cancer in California at the age of 75.

For five years in the late 90's, Robert Short owned WRDS FM (Power 102) before selling the station to Galaxy Communications. Short appears tonight in a documentary about the struggles of minority-owned radio stations which airs on WCNY TV 24 at 9 p.m. The half-hour program, produced by Syracuse University professor Hub Brown, profiles stations in Rochester, Kansas City, and New York City.