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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 […]

today10/08/2025 452 2

WION

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 […]

today09/18/2025 127 8 3

WION

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 […]

today08/31/2025 142 6

WION

New WION Radio Program…..

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 […]

today05/09/2025 87 7

WION

Facebook was down! The sky was falling! Get REAL advertising!

  When I wrote this, Facebook had been down about 15 minutes. It's near an hour now.  Messed up pretty good with things showing in the wrong categories,  some people not able to get "in" while others have different issues.  It's "all over the place." The funny part is, "Downdetector […]

today12/11/2024 115 1 2

Jim Blog

T-Minus a few days to “official” Winter…so here’s a practice run!

Wednesday through Thursday it would seem that the weather our "West Central" (Ionia County) area was not supposed to get is now "likely" to get some winter weather. Earlier tonight, the National Weather Service issued a Winter Weather Advisory. Basically....if you're a long time Michigan person, you know that it […]

today12/10/2024 61 2

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