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An observant CNYRadio.com reader points out Bob McMahon, formerly of stations in Utica and Syracuse, has been let go from WBZ in Boston. [More...]

The Pennsylvania-based company that owned Galaxy’s Utica-Rome cluster for a short time in 2004, is now history.  “Route 81 Radio” has been taken over by one of it’s own primary investors following a foreclosure sale, reports Scott Fybush in this week’s NorthEast Radio Watch.  Route 81 no longer has any properties in Central New York, but we thought it would be fun to take a quick look back at its brief stay in U-R. [More...]

With a uniformed police officer at his side, Ed Levine, head of Galaxy Communications, made a trip to Utica earlier this week to pick up the keys to the three stations his company previously owned. [More...]

WKLL 94.9 FM is cranking it down a few notches in Utica-Rome. The former modern rock station, which had been simulcasting Galaxy Communications’ K-Rock (WKRL) signal out of Syracuse, will switch to WTLB’s adult standards format and WTLB-FM call letters on Monday.

WKLL, WTLB, and WRCK were all recently purchased from Galaxy by Route 81 Radio which yesterday announced they have no plans to changes formats on WTLB or WRCK.

Today’s Utica Observer-Dispatch has the scoop.
(2008: Link to original article is no longer valid.  We were unable to find it on the O-D’s current website.)

Following last month’s announcement that Galaxy Communications is selling its Utica-Rome stations to Route 81 Radio, it looks like that transition has begun.  Over the weekend, Galaxy switched its WKLL 94.9 FM simulcast of K-Rock to sister station Rock 107 (WRCK). There’s no official word yet on what formats Route 81 Radio has planned for WKLL, WRCK, and WTLB.

Galaxy Communications is pulling out of the Utica-Rome market.   [More...]