After two months without a morning show, Syracuse active rock station 95X (WAQX) welcomes a new local morning team to replace Howard Stern’s syndicated show which the station dropped in late December. Guy “Beaner” Patton and Ken Heron, who were last paired together on the air in Birmingham, Alabama, aren’t looking to duplicate Stern’s show, instead opting for more shtick and less shock.

UTICA-ROME — On the heels of last month’s format switch at WUCL, comes word of several staffing changes at the Clear Channel cluster in Utica-Rome. [More »]

Northeast Public Radio is extending its affiliate network to the west into the Utica-Rome market. Regent Communications has sold WRUN for $275,000 to the Albany-based NPR cluster headed up by Alan Chartock. That brings to 13 the number of stations simulcasting programming from WAMC, the group’s flagship station in Albany.

Howard Stern is back from his two week vacation, but not in the five markets where Citadel Communications had been broadcasting the shock jock’s show. [More »]

Today’s Howard Stern Show was peppered with talk throughout the morning of 95X’s recent decision to bail out of Stern’s syndicated show each morning at 10 a.m. [More »]

UTICA — While some may call Bill Keeler’s locally-produced television show, “The Keeler Show”, a clone of MTV’s popular “Jackass”, the former Rock 107 (WRCK) morning show host begs to differ. [More »]

Howard Stern is saying goodbye to the FCC and broadcast radio. The syndicated shock jock announced this morning that he has signed a five-year deal with Sirius Satellite Radio where he’ll oversee programming on three of the service’s channels and host his own morning show. [More »]

The Keeler Show, a local late night television program featuring Bill Keeler, has made its way to Syracuse. [More »]

A day after Premiere Radio Networks announced the cancellation of Leeza Gibbons’ Hollywood Confidential, we find out the reason why.  Gibbons has signed with Westwood One to host a five-hour nightly show called Leeza at Night. [More »]

Former K-Rock (WKRL/WKLL) morning jock “F’n Kevin” Klein is keeping busy these days in New York City. Klein, who recently left his digs in Syracuse for the Big Apple, has been heard on XM Radio’s MTV and VH1 channels and on New York’s 92-3 K-Rock (WXRK). WXRK is the home base of the syndicated Howard Stern Show.