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“Nixon Elected.”  Less than three weeks after former K-Rock (WKRL/WKRH/WKLL) PD/middayer Ty announced she’d be leaving for a new job Baltimore, Galaxy Communications has announced the hiring of her replacement.  [More...]

An Oneida County man has died after attending the K-Rockathon earlier this month, according to the Utica Observer-Dispatch.  The paper says James M. Cieri of Westmoreland, 20, suffered a skull fracture, which was discovered after he complained of a headache on the way home from the concert in Weedsport. [More...]

The Pennsylvania-based company that owned Galaxy’s Utica-Rome cluster for a short time in 2004, is now history.  “Route 81 Radio” has been taken over by one of it’s own primary investors following a foreclosure sale, reports Scott Fybush in this week’s NorthEast Radio Watch.  Route 81 no longer has any properties in Central New York, but we thought it would be fun to take a quick look back at its brief stay in U-R. [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...]

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

No doubt about it, Clear Channel Communications is the radio industry’s heaviest hitter. The group owns 1,200 stations in the United States including six in Syracuse.  A recent article in Salon.com characterizes them as “Radio’s Big Bully.”  Galaxy Communications’ Ed Levine is quoted in the piece.  (2008 Update: the article is still live on Salon’s website - click here to read it.)