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 »]

GENEVA — It was a busy weekend for NPR affiliate WEOS. The station hosted a live taping of Says You in Geneva on Friday night and a live broadcast of Whad’ya Know in Ithaca on Saturday. Scott Fybush attended the Ithaca event and posted photos in this week’s edition of NorthEast Radio Watch, published today. [More »]

SYRACUSE — If you haven’t bought an HD Radio yet, now you can hear at least a little bit of what’s being offered in Syracuse.  Scott Fybush recently added some local HD-2 legal IDs he recorded during some recent visits to the Syracuse area; you can listen at tophour.com.

ITHACA — Public radio listeners are noticing some recent changes on the FM dial, thanks to the anticipated launch of WITH 90.1. Ithaca’s Community Radio at 88.1FM (W201CD), which had been simulcasting Geneva-based WEOS, is now simulcasting a Binghamton-area station’s signal instead. Updated 5/19. [More »]

ITHACA — Time’s running out for Hobart & William Smith Colleges’ construction permit to get new radio station WITH (90.1 FM) on the air. With some help from public broadcasters in Rochester and Binghamton, it looks like WITH will meet the deadline, with plans to sign-on sometime in May. [More »]

You’ve read about all the various format flips and call letter changes over the past few months here at CNYRadio.com … but if you’ve been out of town, perhaps you haven’t had a chance to hear the changes.  Now you can — Scott Fybush has posted a slew of new Syracuse legal IDs on tophour.com.

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.