Joel Delmonico

SYRACUSE —  Chances are, you’ve never heard his voice, but Joel Delmonico has enjoyed a long and influential career in Syracuse radio.  CNYRadio.com recently chatted with Delmonico just before he retired from the VP/Market Manager post at Clear Channel Media + Entertainment’s Syracuse cluster at the end of December.

SYRACUSE — One longtime veteran of local radio will be replaced by another, when Clear Channel Syracuse Market Manager Joel Delmonico calls it a career at the end of the month. The company announced General Sales Manager Rick Yacobush as the heir to the company’s highest-ranking position in Syracuse.

SYRACUSE — After more than 30 years in local radio — the last 21 as VP and General Manager of the market’s Clear Channel cluster of radio stations, Joel Delmonico is ready to call it a career.  He announced his retirement plans today.

SYRACUSE — Ann Marie Buerkle, who served one term as a U.S. Representative from 2011 to 2013, says she’s going to debut a one-hour weekend talk show on Newsradio 570 and 106.9 WSYR.  The new show, which is actually paid programming, begins on May 25.

SYRACUSE — The early 1920s marked the birth of commercial radio across the world. While Pittsburgh’s KDKA is widely known (though often disputed) as the world’s first commercial station, Syracuse wasn’t very far behind. But to listen to WSYR today, you wouldn’t know the station has a big birthday this weekend.

Updated 12:50pm — SYRACUSE — Former Syracuse talk show host Gary Nolan isn’t coming back to New York State, as we reported here this morning.  While Clear Channel has named Gary Nolan as the new PD for two radio stations in Binghamton, it’s not the same Gary Nolan who previously hosted an afternoon drive talk […]

SYRACUSE — Even though it’s been nearly two weeks since Rush Limbaugh made headlines with his now-infamous namecalling of Georgetown University law student Sandra Fluke, it appears the controversy isn’t over yet. Today, a Syracuse car dealer became the first local advertiser to pull its spots from Limbaugh’s show.

CENTRAL NEW YORK — Dozens of national-level advertisers and two radio stations — one in Hawaii and one in Massachusetts — have severed ties with The Rush Limbaugh Show, over some well-publicized remarks Limbaugh made on-air recently.  But when it comes to affiliates in the three markets covered by CNYRadio.com, it appears Limbaugh’s future is […]

SYRACUSE — Six weeks after joining the lineup at FM Newsradio 106.9 and 570 WSYR, afternoon talk show host Bob Lonsberry is making front page news.  A profile on the Rochester-based host appeared on the front page of the Syracuse Post-Standard today.  Former afternoon host Jim Reith responded on Facebook.

SYRACUSE — Earlier today, we reported Jim Reith has exited WSYR radio, after 27 years at the news/talk station.  It appears Reith’s departure is among many nationwide, ordered by WSYR’s owner, Clear Channel Communications.  Since this afternoon, the tips have poured in, and we’ve learned at least three others received pink slips in Syracuse today.