SYRACUSE — Lite Rock 105.9 is out and “TV on the Radio” is in.  WLTI is playing random classic TV theme songs, mostly from the 1970s and 1980s (at least during the half-hour or so your editor had the chance to listen).  For now, the legal ID is still WLTI, though we were told last week the call letters would be changing as the station flips to talk sometime this week. [More »]

SYRACUSE — Less than a year after he was reinstated to morning drive — following a two-year absence in the market — syndicated talker Don Imus will once again be dropped from the lineup at WHEN. [More »]

UTICA-ROME — The sale of WRUN 1150 from Albany-based Northeast Public Radio to Bud Williamson’s Digital Radio Broadcasting is now official.  The deal (first reported in July), which included a swap for another station plus some cash, closed last week.
Updated 12/10 at 10pm with WRUN call letters changed to WUTI.
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ITHACA — There are some new legal IDs from Ithaca and “the area we label the Geneva market,” as Scott Fybush calls it — on tophour.com.  Just click here for a quick refresher on recent radio changes in the Finger Lakes region, and to hear the IDs — new and old — from Ithaca and Geneva.

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 »]

Earlier this week, Scott Fybush added some fresher Syracuse legal IDs to the collection at tophour.com.  Today, his colleague Jeff Lehmann has added a few more of his own updates to the Syracuse page, along with IDs from the Utica-Rome and Ithaca markets.  (And they have IDs from other markets all over the country, not just Central New York.)

WATERTOWN — If you’ve ever checked out the remarkable collection of radio station legal IDs at tophour.com (aka “Toppy” for short) you may have noticed the site had no clips from Watertown.  That changed today, as the site added more than a dozen Watertown IDs from 9 different stations. [More »]

The Albany-based owner of WRUN/Utica has received permission from the FCC to make some major changes at the station’s transmitter site in Oriskany. [More »]

Syracuse University’s WAER 88.3 FM is this week’s new addition to Scott Fybush’s “Tower Site of the Week” website.  Regular readers know the page is more than just info about the station’s tower… you can get a peek inside the studios, and a brief history of the station.

There’s a new sound on the air in the Ithaca-Cortland market.  At 95.5, the country format and WFLR-FM call letters are gone.  The new call letters are WFIZ, and they’re playing 10,000 CHR songs in a row to kick in the new “Z95.5, Ithaca’s Hit Music Channel.” [More »]