Rick Roberts

SYRACUSE — Following the recent exit of Tom Mitchell earlier this month after 26 years at the cluster which includes 93Q (WNTQ) and 95X (WAQX), his replacements — three of them — have been named.

CENTRAL NEW YORK — If you enjoy our Picture of the Week (and many who took our recent survey said they do), you’re in luck in this Friday the 13th: we’ve got a “four pack” of photos to share today.  We begin with a radio host in a Syracuse-area Independence Day parade and we continue […]

SYRACUSE — Cumulus Media CHR 93Q (WNTQ) announced it’s adding two more performers to the lineup for its “Summer Jam on the Island” concert next month.  93Q’s Rick Roberts says Universal Records artist Kevin Rudolf, who played Summer Jam in 2009, and Epic Records artist Karmin, have signed on for the concert.

UPDATED 11/21 at 6:00pm — We’re back from a little more than a week “off the grid” (a.k.a. vacation).  Here’s a quick recap — bullet points first, details to follow — on some of the stories that happened while your editor was away. No More Night Host at 93Q Y94FM Goes All-Christmas Syracuse PD Wins […]

SYRACUSE — You may have heard on the air (or read on CNYRadio.com’s Facebook page), that 93Q (WNTQ) morning co-host Ted Long underwent gastric bypass surgery last week. We’re glad to report he returned to work yesterday. According to a report published today, Long has already lost nearly 25 pounds — and says he wants […]

SYRACUSE — This week, we’ve got not one… not two… but four different Pictures of the Week.  Syracuse radio stations were out in full force at a number of special events last weekend.  It wouldn’t be fair to choose just one and make the others wait for another week or two, so we just decided […]

CNYRadio.com launched ten years ago — March 1, 2001.   To mark the anniversary, we reached out to dozens of local radio personalities and managers. We sent out a series of questions, figuring it would be interesting to see which ones get responses. And one question certainly did — when we asked people to name […]

SYRACUSE — It was March 1, 2001 — exactly ten years ago today — that CNYRadio.com was born. Today, we begin a series of articles to mark the occasion.   To get things started, we thought it would be fun to follow-up on the site’s very first story from a decade ago: internet rumors that […]

SYRACUSE — Longtime market fixture Tony Bombardo will be performing his very last traffic reports on radio and TV tomorrow (Friday) morning.  Bombardo’s decision to quit his reports comes after he and ABC affiliate NewsChannel 9 (WSYR-TV) failed to agree on a new contract for Bombardo’s services.

SYRACUSE — Look for a new imaging voice on Classic Hits 92.1 (WSEN).  The station is one of three new clients of V/O talent Rachel Logan of the Imaging Chop Shop, according to AllAccess.com.