82-year-old broadcast legend Paul Harvey returned to the microphone today. His brief appearance on his noon newscast is Harvey's first since May when he came down with a bad case of laryngitis. Saying that "the rusty pipes are being renewed... I'm so eager to return", it's still not clear when he'll be back for good. Harvey is heard locally on 570 WSYR.
Vernon Downs officials found out officially that TK99/105 was canceling its 'Fireworks Over Syracuse' event by hearing the news first on the radio.
After nine years, the syndicated medical advice show Sunday Rounds heard locally on WRVO FM 90 has stopped production.
Accusing 570 WSYR of "good old-fashioned, indiscriminate, all-purpose hate," Syracuse University Professor Laurence Thomas made his displeasure with the station known through an editorial letter in the Syracuse Herald Journal.
A federal court has upheld a previous ruling that broadcast radio stations must pay new royalties when streaming their programming online. Most radio stations stopped web streaming earlier this year and may be held responsible for any additional royalties as far back as 1998.
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The 'spring book' is out and Syracuse's Top 40 formatted stations are big gainers in 12+ numbers.
Blair Garner, creator and host of the nationally syndicated country music show After MidNite has signed a multiyear, multimillion-dollar contract renewal with Premiere Radio Networks. The show which began in 1997 and is currently broadcast on over 200 stations across the country is heard locally weeknights from midnight until 6 a.m. on B104.7.
Football season is just around the corner, and WNSS AM 1260 has picked up the broadcast rights for regular-season games of the Buffalo Bills Radio Network beginning this fall. WNSS switches to its new sports fomat on September 5.
Garrison Keillor is recovering from heart valve surgery performed at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. The longtime host of A Prairie Home Companion is resting comfortably and is expected to make a full recovery. His popular weekly radio show heard locally on WRVO FM 90 will not be affected as the last live show of the season was taped on July 7.
After a Tuesday morning altercation in which gossip columnist A.J. Benza struck 'Stuttering John' Melendez, the semi-regular guest of the Howard Stern show was shown the door by WXRK manager Tom Chiusano. The fight occured after Melendez posed as a listener calling in to mercilessly insult Benza. Stern's morning show is heard locally on 95X.