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SportsRadio 620’s (WHEN) weekday afternoon schedule is starting to shake out following Adam Schein’s move to New York City last month.

WIXT TV 9 sports reporter and anchor Jim Lerch has been named the new program director at SportsRadio 620 WHEN. While at channel 9, Lerch presented the NewsChannel 9 ‘Athlete of the Week’ award every Wednesday and also anchored ‘Friday Night Fever’ coverage during the high school football season. Jim also works as a play-by-play

The SkyChiefs have a new radio home. After being dropped from SportsRadio 620 WHEN last month, team management inked a one-year deal with ESPN Radio 1260 WNSS to broadcast the team’s 144 regular-season games.

Sports broadcaster Jim Rome has inked a new multi-year deal that will keep him on the radio for some time to come. Rome, whose nationally syndicated show is heard locally weekday afternoons on SportsRadio 620 (WHEN), had spent the past several weeks deciding whether to focus his time in radio or television. With the new

SportsRadio 620’s Adam Schein bid farewell to Syracuse yesterday, broadcasting his final show locally on WHEN. Schein, who has hosted a weekday afternoon call-in talk show for nearly three years, is leaving to concentrate on his broadcast work with WFAN 660 AM in New York City and a new national weekend show on Fox Sports

Earlier this week, WHEN 620 AM announced they would no longer broadcast Syracuse SkyChiefs games beginning this season. The other all-sports station in town seems like a logical new home for the play-by-play action, and WNSS operations director Tom Mitchell confirms that ESPN 1260 has an offer on the table and is waiting to hear

After a ten year run, SportsRadio 620 WHEN has decided not to broadcast Syracuse SkyChiefs games. The team’s general manager John Simone wasn’t surprised with the decision, saying, “to be on one station for that long is kind of unprecedented.”

‘Prime Time’ Adam Schein, who hosts a local weekday call-in show on SportsRadio 620, will soon be making a weekly trek to Queens to host a new Sunday night nationally syndicated radio sports show.

The Syracuse radio community said goodbye to several broadcast veterans this year.

Dave Perkins is leaving his programming job at 570 WSYR and SportsRadio 620 WHEN. Perkins can be reached via email at: dperkins620@cs.com.