SYRACUSE — Even though automation systems in place at virtually every radio station in the region allow for easy and accurate documentation of every single song and advertisement that hits the air, many stations are now being watched by at least one “external” observer around the clock. Mediaguide is now monitoring several stations in the Syracuse Metropolitan Service Area (MSA) effective today.  Updated 6/22 with slight corrections. [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.

For the first Picture of the Week of the new year, we’ve got a double feature: another reader-submitted memory of the once-mighty WRUN, along with a rather impressive home studio setup. [More »]

SYRACUSE — There’s no more Buckley Radio in Central New York.  The Connecticut-based company’s sale of its three-station Syracuse cluster to Leatherstocking Media Group has officially closed. [More »]

SYRACUSE — The new week begins with a new–but old–additional choice for talk radio in the Salt City.  Leatherstocking Media Group is launching “CNY Talk Radio” on WFBL 1390, effective tomorrow (Monday) morning at 5:00am.  In other news from the Smokey Hollow Road studios in Baldwinsville, WSEN is no longer airing traffic reports from Tony Bombardo.

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SYRACUSE — The Baldwinsville Messenger finally caught up with the recent sale of WSEN, WSEN-FM and WFBL.  A report published last week offers some new minor details about the transition, but little in the way of significant information that wasn’t already published on this website nearly a month earlier.

SYRACUSE — We’ve certainly had more than our fair share of changes on the radio in the Salt Emerald City lately.  You’ve read about the format flips (some temporary), the call letter changes, the moving transmitters, new simulcasts and more right here — and thanks to Scott Fybush, you can hear the market’s newest legal IDs anytime on-demand at tophour.com.

SYRACUSE — The sudden simulcast change on WSEN(AM) yesterday morning is the first step towards a brand new format at 1050 on the AM dial.  That’s what CNYRadio.com has learned this morning from General Manager Judy Kelly, two days after Leatherstocking Media Group has effectively overtaken the Buckley cluster through an LMA. [More »]

SYRACUSE — Change is already in the air at the Buckley Radio compound in Baldwinsville, just a day after Leatherstocking Media Group’s LMA on the cluster went into effect.  WSEN AM and FM are no longer simulcasting the same “Classic Hits” format.  Instead, WSEN 1050AM is simulcasting WFBL’s “Oldies 1390″ format. [More »]

SYRACUSE — The pricetag on the sale of Buckley Radio’s three-station Syracuse cluster to James V. Johnson’s Leatherstocking Media Group was revealed today.  In documents filed with the FCC, the purchase price is listed as $2.1 million. [More »]