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.
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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 . . . → Read More: New Syracuse IDs on “Toppy” 
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. 
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. 
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.
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 . . . → Read More: New Ithaca IDs Added to tophour.com 
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.
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, . . . → Read More: More CNY Updates on Tophour 
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. 
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. |
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