Tune In Broadcasting

SYRACUSE and UTICA — Looking to start off the new year with a new job?  We’ve spotted a handful of job openings within local broadcast outlets over the past few days.  For your convenience, we’ve got all the details here in one roundup-style article.  Of course, broadcasters, we still continue to accept job postings anytime […]

UTICA-ROME — It’s been a long time in the works, and the signal has been on-again/off-again several times over the past two years.  Today, some sure signs of progress — management has announced the station’s eventual format, and they’re taking applications for a number of job openings.

UTICA-ROME — Could the prolonged mystery surrounding the status of Rome’s WKAL be reaching an end?  The station — which faced a May 7 deadline to begin broadcasting or lose its broadcast license — appears to be up and running.

UTICA-ROME — Radio station 1450 WKAL is supposed to be back on the air tomorrow, but the station’s owner has asked the FCC for more time to complete construction of a new studio space in Rome.

UTICA-ROME — Longtime residents of Rome remember when WKAL’s studios were located within the Capitol Theatre on West Dominick Street.  The theatre and the radio station were both originally owned by the Kallet family, hence the call letters.  Rod Foote worked for WKAL from 1967 to 1972, and he recently discovered a treasure from his […]

UTICA-ROME — If you’ve been eager to find out what the new owners of 1450 WKAL/Rome plan to do with the signal, it appears you’ll have to wait a bit longer.  After WKAL’s owners told the FCC it had finally resumed full-time broadcasting for the first time in nearly a year, the station went silent […]

UTICA-ROME — It appears that WRUY 1450 is closer to getting back on the air.  We’ve received reports of the station running a loop of “national” PSAs over the weekend, along with an ID for “WRUY 1450AM Rome, Utica, Syracuse, NY.”

UTICA/ROME — Several months after new owners took over WRUY 1450 in Rome, the station remains silent.  The FCC originally issued a mid-January deadline for the station to resume broadcasting, but days before the deadline, the Commission approved a request to push the deadline out a few more months.

CNYRadio.com reader Mark Fuller recently wrote to ask, “Does anyone know whats happening with Rome, NY’s 1450 AM?”  He observes the station has “been silent for months,” specifically since May, when Tune In Broadcasting purchased the station from Bible Broadcasting Network.  Fuller asks, “what’s the sense of buying radio stations only to leave them silent?”

UTICA/ROME — As reported here earlier, the call letters at WYFY/Rome will be changing before Bible Broadcasting Network officially hands the keys over to Tune In Broadcasting.  Now, we know those calls: the station, sold in February for $90,000, is now WRUY.  According to this week’s edition of NorthEast Radio Watch, BBN swapped the calls […]