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 […]
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 […]
(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 […]
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.
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? When it's the STEREO INTERNET STREAM OF WION! You say you only listen to "digital sources? Well, we're there! We're on THIS website for streaming on a PC, Mac, Phone, […]
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 type of radio. A cooperative effort was made to fix the radio and Shango posted one video on it. Later, our friend Shango066 sent us a video camera, batteries and […]
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 purely a weather related phenomenon. It's common with spring and fall wide temperature swings, and in the summer when the air is more "unstable" around the times of stronger storms. […]
Jingle Bells....Jingle Bells.....Jingle all the way... Box stores sell.... Christmas Bells..... 3 months way to early..... Were you singing that tune? The words seem appropriate as once again...the first sighting of Christmas in a national store locally is a box store in South Ionia....... As I write this we are more than a month yet from HALLOWEEN! My parents, rest their souls used-to always say that Christmas came earlier every year in stores, but...if that were true, it'd be like […]
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 the state of Michigan, the USA, and the world via the web, just like "the big guys." The appeal of "radio" is in what I'd call the "local recipe." The […]
