A wonderful combination of (my definition) "Americana" and Kindness captured yesterday near St. Louis, MI on my way to pick up a transmitter from our engineer. I had to turn around and take the video and picture. These people had to bother PUTTING the old car on their lawn, stocking the "free" produce in the trunk, and make it inviting. Kindness on a back road. Nothing more. Just that. Simple Kindness, and a refreshing scene for our current times.
WION has listeners all around the world, and one in England has contributed to our music library. One song missing from the libraries we bought 19 years ago was....drum roll please....."Feelings...woaw woaw woaw Feelings...." and, for fun, we played part of it from YouTube last time the title came up. (We still have to pay to play it, so why not.).... Thanks to international mail, and a very fun listener who tunes-in regularly, we now have our own copy on […]
We hope you are enjoying our new website here at i1430.com! Today we have made an update to our website which will greatly help our viewing impaired users. Our now playing feature which shows the song title and artist has been updated so that it now works correctly with most if not all screen readers. Its a small update but a very important one for those who need it! It's just another reason why we are "America's Biggest Little Raido […]
If you were with us on Monday's J and J Midday show, you heard some "odd" noises that were not coming from Isabelle, Jim, or Justin. We actually had a device in the studio emitting odd noises picked up by the microphone at the round table. It was a 1950's "Zenith" remote control for an early TV. The four tuning forks inside it triggered motors that ran the volume up and down, and the VHF tuner up and down […]
Interesting how buyouts of one small company by another in the name of growth, expansion, or better service often end much differently than expected. I remember the first time I worked with a company that got bought out, and it was partially my fault, perhaps, but without my decision we may not be talking today. I worked in a family-owned "rent to own" and retail store, selling and renting TVs, VCRs, furniture, big satellite dishes, and more. It was the […]
The post below was written around 9 AM.....now, the storms are showing two separate cells aiming at Michigan, with Ionia "possibly" in between the two.....but then farther back is one cell pretty much right on line with our area if it doesn't change it's track. I'll call it the "split then the hit"...and, as I said on the radio, I'm not a meteorologist, nor do I claim to know how all this "weather stuff" works..but I'd lay odds the first […]
On this "text topic Tuesday..." a couple things of note. Need some calming in your day? Our internet manager, Scott, from Satelliteguys has not one but TWO calming 'cams up and running to show-off their young puppies! Visit this link and enjoy a bit of calm and cute in your day. And, your local station was one of the topics in a podcast for radio engineers and radio geeks who love electronics. We're mentioned beginning after the live commercial around […]
It's no secret to our listeners that the last week or so has been "technologically challenging" at our studios and at Lowell's "Broadcast Hill." It has tried my patience more than you can know, even though I've shared some of the frustrations with you during the J and J Midday Show. First it was Spectrum's poorly-deployed/poorly designed system that needs a SECOND box attached to our cable modem to provide our now nearly 19 year old static IP address. It […]
