SYRACUSE -- The new week begins with a new--but old--additional choice for talk radio in the Salt City. Leatherstocking Media Group is launching "CNY Talk Radio" on WFBL 1390, effective tomorrow (Monday) morning at 5:00am. In other news from the Smokey Hollow Road studios in Baldwinsville, WSEN is no longer airing traffic reports from Tony […]
VERNON -- Oldies 1390 (WFBL/WSEN[AM]) recently welcomed Joey Dee and the Starlighters for a concert at the Vernon Downs Racino. After the show, the group signed autographs for fans, and took some time to pose with WFBL morning man Dick Mastriano.
SYRACUSE -- The Baldwinsville Messenger finally caught up with the recent sale of WSEN, WSEN-FM and WFBL. A report published last week offers some new minor details about the transition, but little in the way of significant information that wasn't already published on this website nearly a month earlier.
SYRACUSE -- We've certainly had more than our fair share of changes on the radio in the Salt Emerald City lately. You've read about the format flips (some temporary), the call letter changes, the moving transmitters, new simulcasts and more right here -- and thanks to Scott Fybush, you can hear the market's newest legal IDs […]
SYRACUSE -- The sudden simulcast change on WSEN(AM) yesterday morning is the first step towards a brand new format at 1050 on the AM dial. That's what CNYRadio.com has learned this morning from General Manager Judy Kelly, two days after Leatherstocking Media Group has effectively overtaken the Buckley cluster through an LMA.
SYRACUSE -- Change is already in the air at the Buckley Radio compound in Baldwinsville, just a day after Leatherstocking Media Group's LMA on the cluster went into effect. WSEN AM and FM are no longer simulcasting the same "Classic Hits" format. Instead, WSEN 1050AM is simulcasting WFBL's "Oldies 1390" format.
SYRACUSE -- The pricetag on the sale of Buckley Radio's three-station Syracuse cluster to James V. Johnson's Leatherstocking Media Group was revealed today. In documents filed with the FCC, the purchase price is listed as $2.1 million.
Updated 8/19 @ 6:15PM with Buckley Press Release - SYRACUSE -- Buckley's three-station Syracuse cluster will soon have a new owner, pending FCC approval: James Johnson's Leatherstocking Media Group, the same outfit that recently purchased the WMCR AM/FM duo in Oneida.
SYRACUSE -- You often hear about hockey players being sent back and forth between the Syracuse Crunch of the AHL and its parent club, the Columbus Blue Jackets. Today, the NHL team announced it's calling up Crunch broadcaster Bob McElligott.
ROCHESTER -- On July 6, former Syracuse radio personality Jack Mindy will be calling it a career... stepping away from the mic after more than half a century. Longtime Syracuse residents may remember Mindy's voice from WHEN, WFBL and WSYR during the 1970s.