UTICA/ROME — The locally-owned Roser Communications Network is one big step closer to picking up another radio station. The FCC announced today that it has approved Roser’s plan to buy WRCK 100.7 from Educational Media Foundation. The $425,000 deal was first revealed in November.
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WASHINGTON, DC — Contrary to a report CNYRadio.com published on January 25, it looks like Cranesville Block Company isn’t ready to give up on plans to bring a new AM station to St. Johnsville. Cranesville has filed a “petition for reconsideration” with the FCC, likely blaming the non-launch of WKAJ on factors beyond the company’s control.
UTICA/ROME — Looks like Hank Brown won’t be returning to the radio as “your host for coffee and toast,” at least not on WKAJ 1120 as he announced last month. Given the fact the station’s construction permit expired before Brown made the announcement, it’s no surprise the permit has been officially cancelled by the FCC.
Updated at 10:00pm UTICA/ROME — Nearly eight months after his morning show on WUTQ/WADR was replaced by an extension of the station’s “Talk of the Town” program, Hank Brown is returning to radio. While a local newspaper was first to report Brown’s announcement, we discovered something on the FCC website which seems to indicate Brown’s new radio home may not be legal, after a construction permit expired earlier this month. 
WASHINGTON, DC — You’re watching something on television. All the sudden, a commercial break begins and you’re blown out of your seat by the abrupt increase in audio volume. Perhaps a family member yells at you to turn down the TV, even though you never turned it up in the first place. Thanks to some new FCC regulations, viewers are counting down to the end of that annoying phenomenon.
UTICA-ROME — Locally-owned Roser Communications Network is poised to purchase radio station WRCK from the California-based Educational Media Foundation. The sale, with its $425,000 price tag, was “accepted for filing” by the FCC today, as first reported this morning by AllAccess.com. No word yet on what Roser plans to do with WRCK, but one thing’s for certain — we won’t be seeing a revival of the “Rock 107″ branding Uticans remember from WRCK prior to 2007. 
WASHINGTON, DC – For months, broadcast engineers across the country have been counting down to November 9. That’s the date federal authorities have set for the first-ever national-level test of the Emergency Alert System (EAS). If the system works as expected, you’ll notice the test interrupting normal programming on nearly every radio and TV station in the country at 2pm on Wednesday. 
UTICA/ROME — If the FCC approves (and we can’t see why they wouldn’t), it looks like WRUN-FM will soon officially drop the -FM suffix from its call sign. The station at 90.3FM, licensed to Remsen, simulcasts “Northeast Public Radio” from WAMC in Albany. AUBURN — A private middle school has been granted FCC approval to sell its construction permit for a new radio station to a religious broadcaster from the Buffalo area. But federal regulators say the OK comes with some conditions. Among them, the CP’s new owner won’t get any extra time to get the new station at 88.7FM on the air.
CNYRadio.com reader Mark Fuller recently wrote to ask, “Does anyone know whats happening with Rome, NY’s 1450 AM?” He observes the station has “been silent for months,” specifically since May, when Tune In Broadcasting purchased the station from Bible Broadcasting Network. Fuller asks, “what’s the sense of buying radio stations only to leave them silent?” |
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