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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 home town...and the result:  Local people giving you LOCAL weather information. Today, you check your phone.  If you don't "like" one source, you click to a local TV station, or […]

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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 opposite side of the road where M1CCU, Independent Bank, and Olivera's currently sit. Read the second wire story! And, there's this one..... And, one for the wind!  

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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 hailing from the City of Lowell! We thank the Lowell Area Chamber of Commerce for their support and partnership with WION "Year-Round".....we've had that great organization on the air even […]

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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 lots of other area businesses and organizations. it's all at Lowell high school Saturday!  (March 28)

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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, we started with CBS. They were owned by a large corporation, and THEY “lost us” during a corporate buyout and physical move from one end of the country to the […]

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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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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, […]

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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 […]

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