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K-Rock Hires New PD; Levine Taunts 95X

K-Rock Hires New PD; Levine Taunts 95X

“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...]

Man Dies After Attending K-Rockathon

Man Dies After Attending K-Rockathon

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...]

Route 81 Radio Foreclosure Sale

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...]

Galaxy gets its Utica stations back

Galaxy gets its Utica stations back

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 sells its Utica-Rome stations

Galaxy sells its Utica-Rome stations

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

Is Clear Channel radio’s ‘big bully’?

Is Clear Channel radio's 'big bully'?

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.)