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Talk show host Glenn Beck will be in the Syracuse suburb of DeWitt on November 15th, as part of his “Helicopter Tour” to visit 50 cities in six weeks.  He’ll be signing copies of his newest book, The Christmas Sweater.

Newsradio 950 WIBX Program Director Gene Conte is the subject of this week’s “10 Questions” column at AllAccess.com.  He talks about his many on-air personas, WIBX’s efforts to maintain a significant amount of local programming, and his long career in the Utica-Rome market.

Former San Diego mayor Roger Hedgecock, a frequent substitute for Rush Limbaugh, will have his own nationally-syndicated weekday talkshow starting just after the new year.

Doug Stephan is celebrating the 20th anniversary of his syndicated morning talk show, “Doug Stephan’s Good Day.”  Locally, Newsradio 950 WIBX/Utica carries the show on Saturday mornings.  Doug’s website has a 20th anniversary page with highlights from the past 2 decades.

Starting later this week, Newsradio 950 WIBX’s local talk show First Look will have the chance to gain some new… viewers.  Yes, viewers.  Every Friday in October, the show will be videotaped for re-broadcast on TV.

Nothing yet on their website or sent out to their E-Mail Club, but Utica-Rome’s Newsradio 950 WIBX is reportedly adding “The Glenn Beck Weekend” to its lineup.

What a slooooow week this was!  We only had one new story since last week’s POTW.  It was such a slow week, we had to go back in time for the latest POTW.  We found this one at the Utica AM Radio Website, and the owners could use some help identifying one of these guys.

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.

Regent’s Newsradio 950 WIBX has just signed up with Performance Racing Network (PRN) to carry live coverage of NASCAR’s Sprint Cup series.  The announcement was included in an e-mail sent to the WIBX “Listener Club” this afternoon.

UPDATED (1:05PM) – The 2008 New York State Broadcasters Association “Awards for Excellence in Broadcasting” have been unveiled.  We now have a complete list of winners, and they include stations in all four markets we cover… for a total of 11 radio awards, and at least 2 TV awards for former radio reporters.