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Citadel’s Syracuse cluster briefly had 2 openings for PDs, but they’re back to just one opening, after hiring a new skipper for active rocker 95X (WAQX).

Lite Rock 105.9 (WLTI) morning host and program director Dave Allen has exited the station, and Citadel has started the search for a replacement.  (Updated at 5:10pm with confirmation from Citadel management.)

Platinum-selling national recording group “Tantric” recently stopped by the 95X (WAQX) studios in Syracuse.  The group posed for a few pictures including this one with midday DJ Alexis.  (Also read on for details on our POTW contest!)

Regent Communications is at risk of being delisted from the NASDAQ stock market, according to business newspaper report in Cincinnati, the home of Regent corporate HQ.  The owner of 62 stations — including four in Utica-Rome — has been trading below NASDAQ’s $1.00 minimum for more than 30 consecutive trading days.

An observant CNYRadio.com reader points out that Citadel Broadcasting of Syracuse has several job openings posted on a local job website.  Among them: a posting titled “95X Program Director.”  But the current PD isn’t leaving the station.

After a few rough years of morning show turnover — starting with the departure of Howard Stern, a short-lived replacement, and the coming and going of Opie and Anthony — Syracuse Citadel rocker 95X (WAQX) is nominated for two Industry Achievement Awards from Radio and Records magazine.

Former 95X PD Steve Brill has been named Ops Manager for Citadel’s 5-station cluster in Des Moines, Iowa, according to R&R.  (We originally said GM because they did, but they’ve since changed their article.) And a reliable source tells us there’s a new GM at Citadel’s Syracuse cluster, but did not have any further details. If you […]

Apparently Citadel’s decision to drop “Opie & Anthony” from the 95X lineup yesterday, replacing it with a music-intensive show branded as “Shut Up and Rock” was a surprise to O&A themselves.

Citadel rocker 95X (WAQX) has once again changed its morning show.  Effective today, the syndicated Opie & Anthony Show is out, and locally-programmed “Shut Up & Rock Mornings” are in.  WAQX had carried the O&A show since January 2007.

It’s been 30 years since Dave Frisina first came on the Syracuse radio scene.  The man who started the popular show “Soundcheck” on Citadel’s 95X (WAQX), later taking it with him over to TK99/105 (WTKW-WTKV), is featured in this week’s edition of the Syracuse New Times.