All articles posted by Scott Jameson, founder and editor of the original CNYRadio.com. Scott started the site on March 1, 2001 and announced his decision to go “suspend regular publication” on April 22, 2005. In that time, he posted a total of 997 articles. We’re gradually adding those back articles in this category, in an effort to fully unite the original site with the current site.

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.

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...]

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...]

With a uniformed police officer at his side, Ed Levine, head of Galaxy Communications, made a trip to Utica earlier this week to pick up the keys to the three stations his company previously owned. [More...]

Y94FM (WYYY) has juggled its schedule a bit to make room for John Tesh in the evening.

Tesh’s syndicated show, which had been airing during the overnight hours since last May, can now be heard each weekday evening from 7 - midnight. [More...]

WKLL 94.9 FM is cranking it down a few notches in Utica-Rome. The former modern rock station, which had been simulcasting Galaxy Communications’ K-Rock (WKRL) signal out of Syracuse, will switch to WTLB’s adult standards format and WTLB-FM call letters on Monday.

WKLL, WTLB, and WRCK were all recently purchased from Galaxy by Route 81 Radio which yesterday announced they have no plans to changes formats on WTLB or WRCK.

Today’s Utica Observer-Dispatch has the scoop.
(2008: Link to original article is no longer valid.  We were unable to find it on the O-D’s current website.)

Following last month’s announcement that Galaxy Communications is selling its Utica-Rome stations to Route 81 Radio, it looks like that transition has begun.  Over the weekend, Galaxy switched its WKLL 94.9 FM simulcast of K-Rock to sister station Rock 107 (WRCK). There’s no official word yet on what formats Route 81 Radio has planned for WKLL, WRCK, and WTLB.

Galaxy Communications is pulling out of the Utica-Rome market.   [More...]

After Laura Ingraham switched syndicators last year, her show dropped from the radar screen in Utica-Rome. Fear not, Ingraham fans, she’s back on WIBX AM 950. [More...]