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“Compost Occurs”-even in Radio….

We try. Really, we do. Give me a minute to explain. Most large radio stations today don't even LISTEN to their own product. Their own “sound” and, their own “issues” when they happen. We DO. For the past few days, there's been quite a few interruptions in our streaming service AND in the service we provide to Lowell and Eastern Kent County. Unlike some stations, however, we: take responsibility and […]

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Barry Scott Remembers Dolly

SPECIAL GUEST POST FROM BARRY SCOTT WHO IS HEARD HERE ON WION SATURDAY NIGHTS AT 7PM ET. THIS SPECIAL WILL AIR HERE ON WION ON SATURDAY NIGHT.  Thank you Dolly, you will be missed! The Lost 45s with Barry Scott at lost45.com   We say goodbye to the lovely Dolly Parton this weekend on the syndicated version of "The Lost 45s" - with her many appearances over the years. She […]

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It’s National Radio Day again……do we celebrate?

Obviously if you're here, you are well aware of WION's existence.  Some of what you're about to read  you may not know, however. The keys to this station were handed to me in 2004 on August 14th, 22 years ago this week. The station was DEAD.  Off the air. NO programming, NO listeners, NO accounts receivable or clients, NO following, we didn't even have a kitchen sink!  That's correct, there […]

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Our ONE “Home, Home, on the Web”

As provided-to and published by "Lowell's First Look" and we thank them! WION Radio has been a partner with local Lowell businesses, most notably the Lowell Area Chamber of Commerce for many years. Liz Baker, former Chamber director now retired from the Chamber first advertised on WION when we had ONLY an A.M. Station in Ionia, but found it effective in bringing people to “Christmas on the Lowell Showboat” many […]

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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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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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Lowell’s 100.3 (Hopefully) Good for Christmas!

To our valued Lowell listeners on 100.3.... We hope you know that whenever there is an issue with our signal on 100.3 we are notified and we do our very BEST to get it back on for you. Without lengthy explanations, just know that we deal with two different Internet […]

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Technical Difficulties at Lowell….

Just wanted to let anyone concerned know that we ARE aware of the outage of Lowell's 100.3, WION-FM. It appears to  have started about 5:30 this morning, the 10th of December, and came ON again about an hour later, but is off as of this writing at 9:45 Wednesday morning. […]

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FROM OUR “WINNER ON WEDNESDAY” TRIVIA-

Justin's question on Tuesday was, "This item, available in Ionia cost 35 cents in 1945, what's the item? The answer was,  "A TICKET TO THE IONIA THEATRE" It came from this ad in a vintage newspaper.  Thank you J and T Antiques and Estates for the newspapers!

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UPDATE ON LOWELL’S 100.3 OUTAGE

As many of you know, the Lowell frequency for WION Radio has been off the air since Saturday afternoon of this previous weekend.   I was out of town when the notification came to me by a longtime listener. Our equipment is set to automatically shut down the 100.3 transmitter if […]

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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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