SYRACUSE -- It's been more than two decades since Neil Presant left upstate New York for his current job in sales at CBS Radio in Tampa, Florida... but he hasn't forgotten the roots of his radio career. Presant recently sent this photo he took on his last day working for the former "Light and Easy" […]
SYRACUSE -- This week, it's a trip back in time for the Picture of the Week. Your editor's random internet surfing has turned up a collection of vintage radio station bumper stickers, posted on Facebook by a well known local radio personality.
TENNESSEE - Are retired broadcasters ever really retired? In many cases, the answer is "no," and now, you can add former Syracuse personality Dave Laird's name to the "proof positive" list for that argument.
Syracuse broadcast legend Dave Laird is retiring at the end of this month, comes word today from Y94FM (WYYY) Program Director Kathy Rowe. Laird's radio career has taken him up and down the Syracuse dial ... and back and forth along Interstate 90 too.
He's known mostly for his 46 years working at NewsChannel 9 (WSYR-TV) in Syracuse. Mike Price is retiring from full-time work as of this Thursday. Why are we reporting on the retirement of a TV personality? You may not remember it, but he does have ties to local radio as well.