Galaxy Communications

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.

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.

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.

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

This week’s Syracuse New Times cover story takes a look at the 2002 Syracuse Area Music Awards (Sammys) show held on Feb. 1 at the Syracuse Landmark Theater.

National industry trade publication Radio Ink has nominated Lisa Morrow for sales manager of the year.  Morrow is VP Sales at Syracuse-based Galaxy Communications.

Galaxy Communications in a lone wolf in the Syracuse radio market. Local ownership of stations is becoming a rarity these days, but Ed Levine is bucking the trend.

Tickets went on sale today for the 2002 Syracuse Area Music Awards show which returns to the Landmark Theater on Friday, February 1. The biennial event which honors local musicians is sponsored in part by Galaxy Communications.

Galaxy Communications president Ed Levine is quoted in today’s R&R Online on the issue of media consolidation. Saying that “smaller, focused organizations will always thrive”, his hope for the new year is that large organizations like Clear Channel and Citadel will scale back their ownership in markets where they control more than five or six

Gene Wolf and Al Fasoldt have found a new home for their long-running computer advice program Random Access. The show, which aired on 570 WSYR up until this past September, has been picked up by TK-99/105 and can be heard Sunday nights from 6-8 p.m.