OSWEGO -- The Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNA) announced the winners of its 2013 Regional Edward R. Murrow Awards today. This year, Oswego-based NPR affiliate WRVO was the only radio or television outlet in Central New York to win an award and move on to the national level of competition.
OSWEGO -- Today was the first day of WRVO's spring on-air fundraiser. While some stations devote an entire week to soliciting listener support on-air, WRVO said it was able to reduce its on-air fundraising efforts to just three days this year, thanks to the success of last month's "Foneless February" campaign.
OSWEGO -- Public radio fans who live in or travel through northern New York have a new option to catch programming from WRVO Public Media. The station's newest full-power repeater, WRVH, is now on the air at 89.3FM.
Updated 6/14 with additional information -- OSWEGO -- It's a classic example of climbing the professional ladder: Fred Vigeant started with WRVO in 2000 as an undergrad at SUNY Oswego. Over the next 12 years, he'd progress from being a producer to Operations Director, and eventually to Program Director in 2006. Next week, Vigeant will […]
OSWEGO -- Responding to audience ratings and listener requests, WRVO Public Media has announced a flurry of changes to its program schedule, set to take effect two weeks from Monday. Two new programs each from NPR and CBC will be added, while some existing programs will be shifted to new timeslots.
SYRACUSE -- Michel Martin, the host of NPR's Tell Me More, visited Syracuse last month. She gave a lecture at Syracuse University on her first evening in town, and she enjoyed a luncheon with community leaders along with members and staff of NPR affiliate WRVO the following day.
OSWEGO -- NPR affiliate WRVO has a new Director of News and Public Affairs. The station says Catherine J. Loper has been appointed to the post, which had been vacant since Dave Bullard exited the station last fall. Loper brings 20 years of broadcast journalism experience to the table.
OSWEGO -- The State University of New York College at Oswego has a job opening for a broadcast/media engineer. The description doesn't mention WRVO, the powerhouse NPR affiliate located on-campus, but rather, the student-run facilities including WNYO-FM 89.9, cablecast WTOP 10, along with the school's academic audio and video production facilities.
OSWEGO -- Last week, Scott Fybush tipped us off to the mid-January collapse of the tower of WWLF 96.7FM, the Oswego simulcast of New Country WOLF 105.1. In his latest Tower Site of the Week column on fybush.com, he's got some photos of the tower from 2011. During the trip, he also has tower shots […]
OSWEGO -- From the "better late than never" file, there's an explanation behind the three-week disappearance of 96.7 WWLF-FM. Remember that really windy day last month? The station's owner says winds on January 17 were strong enough to bring down the transmitter tower. Since early this month, WWLF-FM has been transmitting from the Mexico tower […]