The butter sculpture, rooster crowing contest, fried dough—all staples of the New York State Fair, and so too are the live media broadcasts from the state fair.  Here’s a sampling of what local media are up to at the fair this year.

WSYR Radio:  Jim Reith host his afternoon talk show from the fair from 3-7pm at what WSYR calls its iHeartRadio booth, just inside Gate 1 next to the Center of Progress Building.

Lombard says YNN will continue its popular “Be a Newscaster’ booth inside the S&I building where kids can try their hand at news sports and weather.

WSTM/WTVH/WSTQ/CNYcentral
The combined operation WSTM & WTVH have joined forces again with WCNY-TV into a combined media center located tucked in up against the south end of the Center of Progress building next to the Heroes and Legends café.  WSTM’s Laura Hand will be there covering fair stories live at noon 5 & 6 weekdays with meteorologist Peter Hall at noon and Wayne Mahar at 5 & 6 with some help from Doppler the weather cat.

WCNY-TV
WCNY will tape a one hour program called “WCNY Connected at the Fair” hosted by 93 Q’s Ted and Amy. Taping is at 12;30 and the show airs at 6pm.  The station will also tape segments for other shows and having other viewer interaction. Here is a schedule of those events.

WSYR-TV
Newschannel 9 remains at its location next to the Dairy Building.   The station will anchor its news broadcasts from the fair at noon and from 5-6;30. Newschannel 9 News Director Jim Tortora tells us the station will have a sub anchor at the ‘hut’ at the fair for the eleven pm newscasts.  A reporter and weather will be live on weekends.  Bridge Street returns to Chevy Court live weekdays at 10am. 

New this year the station will premier at Chevy Court three screenings of the new ABC program “No Ordinary Family”  It promises a souvenir for the first 300 people at each screening who fill out a comment card.

The Post-Standard/Syracuse.com

The newspaper always has a team of reporters covering the fair with news and features. This year, Syracuse.com has actively sought readers to send them tweets, photos and videos, and more.  Here is what Syracuse.com says its trying to do:

“The Post-Standard is at the New York State Fair every day reporting on breaking news, updating daily events, answering fairgoer questions, and sharing best bets and on-the-fly tips in real time on Twitter at PSEventsLive.

We're also scouring Twitter for the best tweets about the fair and re-tweeting them on PSEventsLive. If you want us to find your fair tweets, just include the hashtag #NYSFair. If you have a question for our fair reporters, tweet us directly @PSEventsLive or post it in the window above and we'll try to get the answer.

(Find out more about how you can share what you're doing at the fair on syracuse.com.)”  The preceding was printed on Syracuse.com and was posted here to best describe in the company’s own words what it is doing at the fair.

Of we’ve left anyone out, let us know we’d be happy to share what your organization is doing at the fair.

For the author's blog about his first state fair, click here.