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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 […]

today04/19/2026 42 2

WION

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 […]

today04/14/2026 49 2

WION

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 […]

today04/07/2026 33

Events

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 […]

today04/01/2026 21

WION

Join us at the Lowell expo tomorrow, Saturday, March 28

We look forward to our returning to the Lowell community expo!  Listen for interviews...better yet tune us in on your way to the expo on 100.3 in Lowell or 92.7 in Ionia County, 1430 anywhere in West Central Michigan, or on your favorite device, then come visit with us and […]

today03/27/2026 32 1

WION

Sad Day for the Radio Industry Nationwide…

News these days is important, in the proper doses. WION Radio has always had a news source on the air. We began with the Michigan Radio Network and CBS. M.R.N. went away, and we picked up what we have now, the Michigan News Network. On the “larger side” of news, […]

today03/20/2026 278 2

WION

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 […]

today02/25/2026 32 3

WION

IN THE AGE OF STREAMING, PEOPLE STILL WANT PHYSICAL MEDIA!

I was fortunate this past weekend to attend an event in Akron, Ohio with two very good friends. The event was postponed from January due to bad weather and I was the beneficiary of being able to attend on the delayed date.  The event was called "Dead Media Market" and, […]

today02/17/2026 50 6 4

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