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July 11, 2005
Sweeney Out At WZLX
 *The
turnover in Boston morning show continues - and this time it's
at eastern MASSACHUSETTS' classic rock station, where
morning host Steve Sweeney disappeared from "Steve Sweeney's
neighborhood" a couple of weeks ago for what was initially
billed as a vacation.
Now it turns out that Sweeney's not coming back, and in the
great circle that is radio, his shift is being filled (for the
moment, at least) by Bill Abbate (whose own WBOS morning show
was axed a few months back) and fellow WBOS veteran Hutch.
Out in western Massachusetts, "Omelette" has vanished
from the morning-show menu at WLZX (99.3 Northampton), where
Leslie Hall is doing the show solo for now, while the station
looks for a replacement.
Back in the Boston market, Entercom is bringing Steve Jones
down from Canada to handle PD chores at its adult hits "Mike"
WMKK (93.7 Lawrence). Jones was VP/programming for the NewCap
group of stations up there; at "Mike," he replaces
Jerry McKenna, recently departed for Infinity's WBMX.
And we're sorry to report the death of Norm Prescott, who
entertained Boston listeners as a DJ on WORL, WHDH and WBZ in
the late forties and fifties. During his time in Boston, Prescott
founded the Norm Prescott School of Broadcasting, later known
as the Northeast Broadcasting School (and now the Brookline-based
New England Institute of Art.)
By the early sixties, Prescott had relocated to the west coast
(though he'd be reminded of his WBZ connections during the payola
investigations of 1960, when he became the first Boston DJ to
admit accepting bribes to play records), and it was out there
that he began a new career in animated TV as a co-founder of
Filmation, which produced everything from The Archies to
Fat Albert to the animated version of Star Trek
before folding in 1988.
Prescott died July 2 in Los Angeles. He was 78.
*NEW HAMPSHIRE Public Radio has chosen
a new leader to succeed Mark Handley when he steps down as the
network's president in September. Elizabeth "Betsy"
Gardella will come to NHPR from American Public Media in Minnesota.
Before that, she served as executive VP and COO at New York's
WNYC, guiding the station through its rebuilding efforts after
its FM transmitter was destroyed in the 9/11 attacks.
 *In
Erie, PENNSYLVANIA, Gannon University's WERG has completed
its move from 89.9 to 90.5, taking the station from 3000 watts
at 124 feet below average terrain (on the Gannon campus near
downtown Erie) to 2750 watts at 374 feet above average terrain,
on a new antenna mounted on the WQLN-TV tower south of Erie.
Down the road in Greenville, new owner Harold Glunt has taken
control of WEXC (107.1), flipping the station from oldies to
Christian rock as "Freq 107." Sister station WGRP (940)
is reportedly silent - and the "Wexy" oldies have reappeared
on the dial at WLOA (1470 Farrell PA), which Glunt's Beacon Broadcasting
is buying from Buffalo-based Holy Family Communications for $295,000,
putting an end to the Catholic programming that had been airing
there.
While we're across the state line in Ohio (and tromping on
the turf of our new colleagues at Ohio
Media Watch), we note that the long-running construction
permit for WYBL (98.3 Ashtabula) has finally begun testing. No
word yet on what the permanent format will be for this new Clear
Channel station, which should have at least some reach to the
west side of the Erie market.
 Over at the other end of the Keystone State, Radio
One's WRNB (107.9 Pennsauken, NEW JERSEY) posted some
amazing numbers in the most recent ratings - and now it's improving
its signal a bit, too, moving from the Alford master antenna
on the One Liberty skyscraper in downtown Philadelphia to a new
two-bay antenna at the very top of the building's mast.
*The call changes in NEW YORK's Southern
Tier have now been followed by some format flips at the Route
81 Radio cluster in Elmira-Corning: the oldies that had been
on "Gem 97.7" follow the WGMM calls to what had been
WCBA-FM (98.7 Corning), with "Gem 98.7" also being
heard on WCBA (1350 Corning). WENY-FM (92.7 Elmira) is now simulcasting
with what's now WCBA-FM (97.7 Big Flats), and they're doing AC
as "Magic." And on the AM side, WCLI (1450 Corning)
changes calls to WENI, to match its talk simulcast with WENY
(1230 Elmira). The stations have now moved into their new storefront
studios on Corning's Market Street, and we'll have to get down
there to check it out one of these days.
In New York City, former WABC talker Steve Malzberg is gone
from mornings at WWRL (1600), where Karen Hunter is now handling
the shift solo.
*Just a few notes from CANADA: CJEZ
(EZ Rock 97.3) in Toronto has named a new morning show. The station
will bring Stu Jeffries and Colleen Rusholme over from CING (Country
95.3) in Burlington. (Milkman UnLimited reports that former
EZ Rock morning host Christine Cardoso, who's been out on maternity
leave, won't be returning to the station.)
In Arnprior, Ontario, CHMY (96.1 Renfrew) applies for a 50-watt
relay transmitter on 104.7. And in Yarmouth, N.S., Radio-Canada
applies for a new outlet for its "Espace Musique" service,
which would operate on 106.1 with 54 kW/171.6 m and a directional
antenna.
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