UTICA -- Today is WKTV reporter/anchor Pat Bailey's last day at the NBC affiliate. Where's he headed next? He's staying right in town to take a new job outside of broadcasting. According to the station, Bailey will be running a new sports bar co-owned by recently-retired pro wrestler Matt Hamill.
RICHMOND, VA -- Former WKTV anchorman Ryan Nobles recently got some national press, which in turn, is likely bringing more traffic to his blog. The popular political news website Politico recently named Nobles one of their top "50 Politicos to Watch."
A local radio GM is on his way to a new job on the west coast, and a former Utica news anchor who has enjoyed some national face time on cable is back on broadcast TV in Atlanta.
BOLTON LANDING – As announced in April, WSYR-TV anchor team Rod Wood and Carrie Lazarus were inducted into the New York State Broadcasters Hall of Fame last night. But they weren’t the only Central New Yorkers taking awards home from the NYSBA’s annual Awards for Excellence in Broadcasting.
UTICA -- Television news outlets from Syracuse and Utica set their competitive differences aside yesterday, pooling their resources to provide live coverage of the funeral services for Oneida County Sheriff's Deputy Kurt Wyman. Staffers, cameras, live trucks and other resources from WKTV, YNN, WSTM, WTVH and WSYR were combined as a single unit for yesterday's […]
SARATOGA -- With nine first-place awards, Oswego-based NPR affiliate WRVO was the big winner among radio stations -- both locally and statewide -- at the New York State Associated Press Broadcast Association Awards over the weekend. On the other hand, all but two of the nominations for local TV stations did not materialize into first-place […]
UTICA -- Applications are now being accepted for journalists, anchors, producers and meteorologists as Nexstar Broadcasting moves closer to bringing a local news product back to ABC affiliate WUTR this fall. The operation will also produce newscasts for sister stations Fox 33 (WFXV) and MyNetwork 11 (WPNY-LP).
SYRACUSE -- Top journalists from Syracuse and surrounding markets gathered for the Syracuse Press Club's 33rd annual Scholarship and Professional Recognition Awards Dinner last night at Drumlins Country Club in Syracuse. Public stations WRVO and WAER dominated the radio categories, while there were plenty of ties for winners in the television categories.
UTICA/ROME -- The three-station simulcast (two AMs and an FM translator) known as B95.5 will be rebranding itself come Monday as "95.5FM WUTQ, your FM local news and talk headquarters." The station, which has combined local talk with "beautiful music," will be focusing more on news and talk programming. As a result, longtime morning host […]
SYRACUSE -- The winners for this year's Syracuse Press Club awards have been announced. On the radio side, public broadcasters led the pack. In TV, it's a neck-and-neck race between WSYR-TV and WSTM-TV. And we're also very happy to report CNYRadio.com appears on the award list as well.