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Take off the Blinders to Support your Local Businesses

WION  radio is local radio. Not corporate. Not answering to stockholders, but answering to you, our listeners and our advertisers! We’re here for you…every day of the year. In good weather with fun music and personalities, and in bad weather with live people in the studio helping to get you local information in emergencies. CLICK PLAY ABOVE TO HEAR THIS POST We’re here, like we’ve been for 21 years, but […]

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Too Many Warnings from Too Many Places….

Back in "the day" people used to keep a lookout in questionable weather (extremely humid, fast rising or falling temperatures, etc) and take responsibility to tune-in to local media which, back in the (same) day was not owned by corporate monsters that program from hundreds of miles away from your home town...and the result:  Local people giving you LOCAL weather information. Today, you check your phone.  If you don't "like" […]

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Freefair Flooding-It’s not so new….

Look at this headline, found in a box of about 2.5 pounds of old 1950's and early 1960's headlines that I was going through today in WION's back room....Almost laughable now that it's such a big deal seeing this, huh?  And, this must be well before the fill-in of the opposite side of the road where M1CCU, Independent Bank, and Olivera's currently sit. Read the second wire story! And, there's […]

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Thank You, Lowell We had a GREAT time at Expo!

Saturday March 28th was a GREAT "rite of Spring" for many people including Jim Carlyle and Phil Cloud from WION!  We were invited to broadcast from the Lowell Community Expo and we had a blast. We received many compliments on our programming for Kent County, which is on 100.3 FM hailing from the City of Lowell! We thank the Lowell Area Chamber of Commerce for their support and partnership with […]

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IS YOUR BUSINESS GOING TO THE LOWELL EXPO? TALK TO US!

If your business is attending the Lowell Community Expo in March- Get a full week's advertising AND an optional onsite (at our booth) Interview! Sign up by downloading the form.  Just click on it for the download, and contact Phil Cloud, or email it back to our studios at this address.    

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INTERNET IN LOWELL IS OUT AGAIN…NO 100.3!

WION is aware of the outage of internet affecting our 100.3 FM. It is caused by the internet provider, not any of WION's equipment. As of this writing, Sunday morning the 9th of November, we are unable to get an answer on the duration or cause of our particular outage […]

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DISTANCE DOES NOT EQUAL DISCOUNT

(Opinion from Jim Carlyle) Would someone tell me exactly why it is that it’s MY responsibility to lower the price of items I sell online because THEY (the buyer ) live farther away from me than what they consider to be a normal distance… at which they might... I assume… […]

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THE OCTOBER FREE MOVIE AT THE IONIA THEATRE…

THE OCTOBER FREE MOVIE AT THE IONIA THEATRE IS COMING MONDAY OCTOBER 27TH!! ENJOY.....GREMLINS!  THE 1984 ORIGINAL MOVIE....FREE....THANKS TO WION SPONSORS! Details at the city's website for the Ionia Theatre, or on the Theatre's F-book page.

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WE “DIG”(ITAL) ANALOG (RADIO)

Digital this.  Digital THAT.  Is it really better?  That debate goes on.   What we CAN tell you is that in many vehicles, the "satellite radio" channels compress your music leaving you with the sound of bad mp3's recorded by your middle school-age kid.    So, when can DIGITAL sound GREAT?  […]

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PROMOTING IONIA!

A couple of years ago, a YouTube content creator named Shango066 worked on an AM stereo portable radio, found to be a prototype from Motorola. We contacted him about WION being in AM stereo, and our engineer Greg who is undeniably the expert on this type of broadcasting and this […]

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Someone Else’s station on our FM’s Frequencies?

  It happens.  It's callled, "“tropospheric ducting.”"  It's weather related. I can assure you, with the exception of piss-poor internet service from TWO different companies we require to bring 100.3 in Lowell to you, any other station coming in LOCALLY on our frequency making us fight to be heard is […]

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