SYRACUSE — Starting in March, there will be a new home for ESPN Radio. Galaxy Communications is not only taking over the network affiliation from Citadel’s WNSS 1260 — the company will be offering ESPN’s programming on the FM band, and it will bring the Spanish-language programming of ESPN Deportes into the market.
Updated at noon with Citadel response. Updated at 8pm to include Utica stations.
NEW YORK CITY — Our congratulations to longtime Syracuse TV and radio broadcaster Rick Gary — one of several personalities inducted to the New York State Broadcasters Association Hall of Fame last night, during a ceremony at The Paley Center for Media.
SYRACUSE — Galaxy Communications CEO Ed Levine received the 2009 Crystal Ball Award this evening from the Central New York Sales and Marketing Executives.
SYRACUSE — NewsChannel 9 is reporting that Galaxy Communications’ exclusive radio coverage deal to carry Syracuse University sports is being extended through 2013 — and the two sides are hoping to bring an NFL exhibition game to the Carrier Dome.
SYRACUSE – Galaxy Communications has signed a long-term deal to continue using Eastlan’s ratings service. In a statement issued today, Galaxy CEO Ed Levine suggests stations can save jobs by choosing Eastlan.
“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.
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.
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.
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.
Galaxy Communications is pulling out of the Utica-Rome market.
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