12+ Mon-Sun, 6a-12mid. Population: 551,100. Market Rank: #88. Last Update: January 9, 2012. WTLA/WSGO changed from Adult Standards to ESPN Sports in Spring 10. WXTL-FM was formerly AC as WLTI until Spring 2010; changed from talk to classic rock after the Fall 2011 book ended. WSYR-FM was previously WPHR/Urban until Spring 2011. WHEN-AM was […]
12+ Mon-Sun, 6a-12mid. Population: 253,800. Market Rank: #164. Last Update: January 9, 2012.
SYRACUSE -- CNY Talk Radio (WFBL/WMCR-AM) local midday host Jon Alvarez announced on today's broadcast that he's ending his show, effective immediately. Starting Monday, the stations will fill the time with an extra hour of Laura Ingraham until a permanent replacement is named. (Updated 6:50pm with correction.)
SYRACUSE -- About a day after CNY Talk Radio (WFBL/WMCR-A) noontime host Jon Alvarez posted a Facebook tribute to Joe Stack, the social networking site pulled the page down, citing a policy banning "hateful or threatening" pages. Stack was the pilot who took his own life and one other when he crashed a small plane […]
CENTRAL NEW YORK -- There's no question this was a busy year for the radio industry in Central New York. Plenty of format flips, quite a few station sales, some great achievements to be proud about, and perhaps most infamously memorable, the economy's impact on the entire broadcasting industry. Today, as per our tradition, we […]
SYRACUSE -- There's no more Buckley Radio in Central New York. The Connecticut-based company's sale of its three-station Syracuse cluster to Leatherstocking Media Group has officially closed.
Utica’s Kiss-FM Drops Jesse Jordan “Intern Dave” Fired from Kiss-FM Foxfur Launches “Wolf 105.1″ Country Format Kiss-FM’s “Intern Dave” Stepping Down from Nights New Format in the Works for WSEN(AM) Wolf 105.1 to Become WOLF-FM; Other Calls “Movin” Tuesday “98.7 The Vine” Sprouts AAA in Ithaca Ulanowski Exits ND Post at WRVO POTW: What a […]
SYRACUSE -- Change is already in the air at the Buckley Radio compound in Baldwinsville, just a day after Leatherstocking Media Group's LMA on the cluster went into effect. WSEN AM and FM are no longer simulcasting the same "Classic Hits" format. Instead, WSEN 1050AM is simulcasting WFBL's "Oldies 1390" format.
SYRACUSE -- The pricetag on the sale of Buckley Radio's three-station Syracuse cluster to James V. Johnson's Leatherstocking Media Group was revealed today. In documents filed with the FCC, the purchase price is listed as $2.1 million.
NPR affiliate WRVO Oswego has changed the frequency of its Geneva translator, to avoid interference with a commercial station in Syracuse.