UTICA/ROME — Many of the songs featured on “Beautiful Music” (WUTQ/WADR) may have been big hits when AM Radio was the only choice, but fans of the format don’t have to keep listening on AM anymore. Roser Communications Network has turned the simulcast into a trimulcast, with the addition of a new FM translator. [More »]

SYRACUSE — Classic FM (WCNY) has requested permission to move its transmitter to the relatively new TV tower on Sentinel Heights. Word comes from Scott Fybush’s NorthEast Radio Watch that WCNY wants to move from its older tower in Pompey. Updated 6/22 with additional information. [More »]

ITHACA — The FCC has ordered Saga Communications to pay $10,000 in fines, in regards to what the Commission has ruled to be “willful violations” the company made regarding transmitter W240CB. The ruling came after complaints were filed by the Geneva-based Finger Lakes Media Group, who argued W240CB’s signal at 95.9FM had interfered with programming from Z95.5 (WFIZ). [More »]

ITHACA/CORTLAND — A construction permit for a new AM radio station licensed to Lansing/South Hill is included among more than a dozen new signals up for bids in the FCC’s upcoming Auction 88.  The CP will allow the future station to broadcast at 750 kHz and there are two bidders. [More »]

UTICA/ROME — Locally-owned radio station owner Roser Communications Network could soon be growing: reports say a religious broadcaster has filed an application to sell a Herkimer-based FM translator to RCN for $30,000. [More »]

GENEVA — Three stations in the Finger Lakes Radio Group have been fined $10,000 each — for being honest about their public files lacking information about certain issues which aired on the stations prior to 2001. [More »]

SYRACUSE — For years it was somewhat ironic: the urban station that barely had a decent signal in the urban area it was intended to serve.  But now, Power 106.9 (WPHR) sounds a lot more… powerful.  (Go ahead and groan at the pun… it’s been a long week, it’s Friday evening, we couldn’t resist.) [More »]

SYRACUSE — The pricetag on the sale of Buckley Radio’s three-station Syracuse cluster to James V. Johnson’s Leatherstocking Media Group was revealed today.  In documents filed with the FCC, the purchase price is listed as $2.1 million. [More »]

UTICA-ROME — A little over a month after the FCC said there are no problems with signal levels at the WOKR(FM) tower in the Town of Floyd, local lawmakers say they’re hearing positive feedback from neighbors who originally complained about dangerously high levels of radiation in June. [More »]

WASHINGTON, DC — A 2007 proposal from the National Association of Broadcasters, which would allow AM stations to use FM translators to increase their audience reach, has been approved by the Federal Communications Commission. [More »]