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SYRACUSE — Popular announcer Dusty Rhodes will be back on the Syracuse airwaves in May, hosting a four-part series entitled Syracuse Radio in the Fifties on WCNY-HD2. Installments of the program are scheduled to air on Sunday afternoons, starting May 2.

DETROIT — After 45 years on the air in the Motor City, Buffalo native and SU graduate Dick Purtan is getting ready to call it a career.  Purtan — who used some other names on-air in Syracuse — announced his retirement plans on his morning radio show this week.  Updated 2/14 with comment from Jay