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? […]
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 […]
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 […]
Twenty-One Years is a long time, and that's EXACTLY how long WION as today's "I-1430" has been serving Ionia County. For a somewhat lesser time, we've served Kent County on 100.3, and a larger part of our Ionia county on FM 92.7. As you also may know, we now serve […]
This Sunday morning it appears by monitoring a Facebook group dedicated to certain internet outages that our 1003 FM is not on the air. By FCC regulation, any time there is no audio detected at the transmitter site, the transmitter has to shut down until audio returns. Our audio is […]
If you're a WION listener and have not caught Justin's new solo Friday morning show, "The Coffee Hour"....put a reminder in your phones or devices now for next Friday morning at 8 AM. It airs just before the "Totally 80's Flashback" and is his very own show, music, and chat […]
Bishop John Taylor is my cousin in California. This is a direct update on Wednesday....from California, un-edited and with no "spin" from any news organization. Should you be moved to donate, here is one place you can give and KNOW it is going directly to relief of those so deeply […]
