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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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Jim Blog

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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Jim Blog

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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HOW (LOCAL) RADIO WORKS-STRESS ON THE WORD “LOCAL”

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 […]

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INTERNET PROVIDER OUTAGE CAUSES LOWELL’S 100.3 TO DROP

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 […]

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