According to Power 106.9 program director Butch Charles, "there's a whole lot of the general population that likes and listens to urban music. We want to make sure everybody can hear it." He's referring to a new transmitter atop the State Tower Building in downtown Syracuse that the station has been testing for the past couple of weeks.

Glenn Gomez Adams and Dave Coombs, hosts of TK-99/105's morning show, have released a new two-disc set titled "Red, White & Blue... & Orange" which includes a collection of patriotic songs along with some of the better bits from "The Good Guys" morning show.

Dave Perkins is leaving his programming job at 570 WSYR and SportsRadio 620 WHEN. Perkins can be reached via email at: dperkins620@cs.com.

If Clear Channel Communications' proposed acquisition of the Ackerley Group is approved, some are contending Clear Channel will have an unfair, if not illegal, monopoly of the public airwaves in several cities including Syracuse. Clear Channel lawyers have responded.

In what has become an annual holiday tradition, local rock station 95X last weekend raised $7,500 for the local chapter of the Make-A-Wish Foundation. An auction of rock-related memorabilia, held at Shoppingtown Mall, included an autographed guitar from Kenny Wayne Shepard and signed South Park dolls.

SiteShell announced this week that it will no longer handle website maintenance and content, but is now a technology and platform licensing company that will license its technology as a package to group broadcasters and other companies.

His station may have changed, but the song is still the same. Big Mike's Christmastime in Syracuse - Volume 7 CD hits 25 area McDonald's restaurants this week.

Searching the Federal Communications Commission's archives just got a whole lot easier. The government agency tasked with overseeing the nation's broadcast airwaves recently made available new search capabilities on their web site.

The FCC has approved an on-channel booster for Auburn's WPHR 106.9 FM. The new booster, which operates at 1740 watts, is located in downtown Syracuse with a directional antenna aimed at the southern part of the city.

Clear Channel Communication's addition of Ackerley's television stations, including WIXT in Syracuse, came under fire from Douglas F. Elznic who describes himself as a "party-in-interest to this matter because I am a resident of Manlius, New York."