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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 address.    

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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, the event was anything BUT "dead." We got there as it opened and stood in line.  In the lobby were exhibitors with everything from portable black and white TV sets, […]

today02/17/2026 37 6 4

WION

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 Service Providers to get you the audio for your Kent County Signal. Sometimes one or the other has issues.  When either does, the 100.3 signal automatically shuts down per FCC […]

today12/19/2025 48 3

WION

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. When the weather clears for safer traveling and I can get a vehicle to the site, we'll investigate.  The equipment is et to automatically shut down when audio is not […]

today12/10/2025 51 4 2

WION

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!

today11/20/2025 43 3

WION

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 it loses the audio being sent from our Ionia studios, and as I have said on the air many times, we are at the mercy of not one, but TWO […]

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WION

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 caused by the ISP. When internet is restored, the station will come up and operate as normal on it's own without any human intervention.   Until then, please use our streaming […]

today11/09/2025 110

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… pay the full price at which I listed the item??   Perhaps the next time I go to Cedar point I should ask them for a discount because I drove […]

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