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All Things Considered co-host Noah Adams begins a year-long leave of absence this week to write a book about Orville and Wilbur Wright. The 100th anniversary of the brothers’ first flight is in 2003. National Public Radio’s All Things Considered airs afternoons on WRVO FM 90 and Jazz 88 WAER.

Following the terrorist attacks of September 11, all three central New York public radio outlets saw increases in the size of their listening audiences for the Fall 2001 Arbitron ratings period.

Syracuse University recently honored five local individuals for “exemplifying the spirit, life, and teachings” of Martin Luther King Jr. Included in the group of this year’s recipients of Unsung Hero and Heroine Awards is Cora Thomas, host of Saturday Morning Gospel on WSIV AM 1540 and Sunday Morning Gospel on WAER FM 88.

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.

Beginning with tonight’s show, WAER FM 88’s Women’s Voices is making a couple of format changes.

After twelve years as host of one of National Public Radio’s most popular programs, Linda Wertheimer said goodbye at the end of today’s All Things Considered.

If you’re up early Saturday morning and are a fan of music from the 1920’s and 1930’s, you won’t want to miss the latest installment of Tin Pan Serenade. The 3 a.m. show, hosted by Red Bingham, features cuts from old-timers Frankie Trumbauer, Eddie Cantor, Connie Boswell, and Fred Waring’s Pennsylvanians.

Oswego-based public radio station WRVO FM 90 faired well in the latest Arbitron ratings for Syracuse. With a 3.4 rating for persons 12+, the NPR affiliate bested fellow noncommericial stations Classic FM (WCNY) which had a 1.6, and Syracuse University’s Jazz 88 (WAER) with a 1.0. The figures reflect listenership during the months of July,

After more than 20 years, Syracuse classical music station WCNY 91.3 FM has decided to stop airing National Public Radio’s All Things Considered.

National radio trade publication Gavin Magazine has named Jazz 88’s Music Director Eric Cohen its Jazz Programmer of the Year award winner.