SYRACUSE -- Mary Nelson, a community leader who oversees a local youth community center named in her honor, will be hosting a weekly show on Power 620 (WHEN) starting this weekend. Nelson first made headlines ten years ago, when she organized a massive "Youth Day Barbecue" collection drive to provide school supplies for the city's […]
SYRACUSE -- Yankees fans will be happy to note that weekday afternoon games have returned to Syracuse radio. Last year, the Bronx Bombers were carried exclusively on WSYR-AM/FM -- skipping weekday afternoon games in favor of Rush Limbaugh. This year, the Clear Channel cluster has reinstated its pre-2011 policy. According to on-air announcements, day games […]
SYRACUSE -- Just within the past year, golf pro Perry Noun's been up and down the dial, on both the AM and FM bands. When his weekly golf show begins its 11th season this Saturday, he'll be on his third new station in just a little more than a year. Golf fans will find "Tee […]
SYRACUSE -- There are some new voices delivering weather forecasts for four of Clear Channel's six local radio stations. As of Monday, FM Newsradio 106.9 and 570 WSYR plus two other stations started using meteorologists from AccuWeather.com, ending a three-year affiliation with The Weather Channel's radio services.
SYRACUSE -- Do you recognize the two broadcasters in this 1984 photo, taken inside 62-WHEN when it was located on Old Liverpool Road in Liverpool? As of last year, they're back in the same newsroom once again. One more clue: one of these people had a birthday yesterday.
CENTRAL NEW YORK -- In various ways, radio stations (even some who don't normally play her music) went out of their way to respond to the death of singing superstar Whitney Houston. The winner of six Grammys and one Emmy (and more than 400 other awards) died at the age of 48 on Saturday night, […]
SYRACUSE -- Longtime local radio personality and Syracuse University professor Dr. Roosevelt "Rick" Wright tells CNYRadio.com he's got a publishing deal for a book about the history of Syracuse radio. But he says he can't do it alone -- he's looking for help in putting together "the total package" of photos, posters, promotional materials, DJ […]
SYRACUSE -- A handful of former Clear Channel Syracuse employees (mostly from WSYR radio) gathered for an impromptu "reunion" on New Year's Eve. We'll borrow a phrase commonly used by one of the attendees to say the gathering took place at "an undisclosed location" within Onondaga County.
SAN ANTONIO, TX -- It's an unprecedented deal between two of the biggest companies in radio: Cumulus Media is joining iHeartRadio, the platform owned by Clear Channel which already provides mobile streaming of more than 800 Clear Channel stations. By adding the 570 stations owned by Cumulus, iHeartRadio will offer roughly 1400 stations -- many […]
SYRACUSE -- For the second time in a single season, Perry Noun's golf talk show, Tee Time with the Pronoun, is changing stations again. After starting the 2011 season on ESPN Radio 97.7/100.7 (WTLA/WSGO/W249BC/W261AC), the Saturday morning program will be cut in half and moved back to the AM dial, to Cumulus Media's The Score […]