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Syracuse Sportscaster Red Parton Dies

SYRACUSE -- Longtime sportscaster Claude "Red" Parton has died, according to a report from ABC affiliate NewsChannel 9 (WSYR-TV).  Parton's career spanned more than six decades, starting with WSYR in 1939.  He'd eventually work at a number of other radio stations before moving into television.

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Dusty Rhodes Returning to Syracuse... Briefly

SYRACUSE -- Popular announcer Dusty Rhodes will be back on the Syracuse airwaves in May, hosting a four-part series entitled Syracuse Radio in the Fifties on WCNY-HD2. Installments of the program are scheduled to air on Sunday afternoons, starting May 2.

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WCNY Brings "The Sandman" Back to Sandman Serenade

SYRACUSE -- Remember The Sandman Serenade from WOLF back in the 1940s and 1950s?  You may already know public broadcaster WCNY-FM has had a revival of the show on its HD2 channel for some time now.  But starting tonight, they've got "The Sandman" himself back in the air chair.  Even if you don't remember the original […]

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Rick Gary Now Officially a Hall of Famer

NEW YORK CITY -- Our congratulations to longtime Syracuse TV and radio broadcaster Rick Gary -- one of several personalities inducted to the New York State Broadcasters Association Hall of Fame last night, during a ceremony at The Paley Center for Media.

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Ronnie Dark's Wax Museum Opens on WVOA

SYRACUSE -- Longtime market personality Ronnie Dark checks in with CNYRadio.com to report his concept for a new show, The Wax Museum, has finally become a reality.  The show airs Sunday nights from 7-9pm on Love Radio 103.9 (WVOA).  The programming is also simulcast on translators 95.3 in Syracuse and 98.1 in LaFayette.

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WVOA Stunting for Friday Format Flip

Updated 8/28 at 12:40pm - SYRACUSE -- Still no permanent new format on WVOA 105.1 FM out of DeRuyter, but the station is now on its second stunt as we await what an insider tells us will be "THE switch" to a new permanent format, expected sometime today. Inside: Vote on your prediction for the […]

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One Ex-CNYer Hires Another... in Pittsfield, MA

PITTSFIELD, MA -- Former Utica and Syracuse jock Nick Caplan has landed on his feet again... with a morning gig in western Massachusetts.  And his boss is a fellow former Utica radio programmer.

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Syracuse Radio Vet John Creveling Dies

SYRACUSE -- He was best known by his on-air names "Johnny C" and "Johnny Vann."  Former WNDR, WOLF and WFBL broadcaster John L. Creveling has died.  Memorial services will take place tomorrow in Durham, NC, but an "audio tie-in" will be provided in North Syracuse.

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Bob Mitchell launches WOLF tribute site

Thanks to the efforts of a few market veterans, a look at how the Syracuse radio landscape used to look and sound is just a click away.

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New home for WSIV transmitter

Local religious station WSIV 1540 AM plans to move it's daytime 1,000 watt antenna from its Myers Road location along the Thruway to WOLF's tower on Kirkpatrick Street near Interstate 690 in Syracuse.

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