New Public Radio Station Signs on in Clayton

WRVO Public Media added a new full service repeater station to its broadcast network this week. WRVH-FM, licensed to Clayton, NY, serves the Thousand Islands region of northern New York and southern Ontario, Canada. Broadcasting at 89.3FM, the station has an effective radiated power of nearly 8,000 watts.

WRVH brings to ten the number of full service and low-power transmitters operated by WRVO Public Media. These include flagship WRVO, a 50,000 watt station broadcasting from the campus of the State University of New York at Oswego; WRVD, located on the campus of Upstate Medical University in Syracuse; WRVJ, serving portions of the North Country from Copenhagen, NY; and WRVN, located on the campus of the SUNY Institute of Technology in Utica.

Low-power translators broadcast from Geneva, Hamilton, Norwich, North Watertown and, beginning later this year, Ithaca. The WRVO broadcast footprint stretches from the Southern Tier northward to Canada, and from the Finger Lakes eastward to the western Mohawk Valley region.

“WRVH will improve our signal for thousands of listeners in the North Country, especially in the St. Lawrence River basin,” said WRVO Public Media General Manager Michael Ameigh. “We are working with our good friends at North Country Public Radio in Canton, NY to expand news and public affairs coverage in the North Country.  Putting WRVH on the air is an important step in moving that initiative forward.”

WRVO Public Media is broadening its footprint in other ways. Later this year a new studio will open at the SUNY Oswego Metro Center on Clinton Square in downtown Syracuse. The facility will originate live interviews for NPR and other radio programmers as well as for WRVO. “As we expand, our news and public affairs producers need the capacity to create high quality programming right in Syracuse,” Ameigh said. “There is a lot of positive energy focused on rebuilding the city’s center core and we intend to be part of that.”

About WRVO Public Media:

WRVO Public Media is a non-profit public radio service licensed to SUNY and based at the State University of New York College at Oswego. Its multi-station network serves more than 15 counties of central and northern New York from transmitters in Clayton, Oswego, Syracuse, Utica, and Watertown. Low-power translators serve Geneva, Hamilton, Ithaca, Norwich, and North Watertown.

In addition to regional news and public affairs, WRVO programming features news and analysis from NPR, American Public Media (APM), Public Radio International (PRI), BBC, Radio Netherlands Worldwide (RNW), Deutsche Welle, and other networks. In 2011 and 2012, the New York State Associated Press awarded WRVO its highest honor, the Steve Flanders Award, for earning the most first-place news awards in competition with radio stations throughout New York State. WRVO is consistently recognized for outstanding news coverage by the Associated Press and the Syracuse Press Club.

For more information, call (315) 312-3690 or visit WRVO.org.