Ed Levine '78

Ed Levine, CEO of Galaxy Media, turned a lifelong passion for radio into one of Central New York’s most successful media companies. He first launched the company as The Radio Corporation in 1990 with one rock station, WKLL, in the Utica-Rome market. Thirty years later, the locally owned and locally operated company owns more than a dozen radio stations in Central New York, including TK99 (WTKW-FM), K-Rock (WKLL/WKRL/WKRH FM), Sunny 102 (WZUN-FM) and ESPN Syracuse (WTLA-AM), and puts on major events like Taste of Syracuse, Lights on the Lake, and the Leon Festival.

Levine pursued a career in broadcasting at Syracuse University’s Newhouse School. He worked hard to get on the air at WAER as a freshman and became the station’s program director his senior year.