Welcome to June from the WION Internet Operations Center. I am happy to report an update to our player here on i1430.com! Now when you use our player the artist and title can now be displayed on your phones lock screen! In addition the artist and title information is now also sent to your Bluetooth players meansing you can see whats playing on your car's display! (Unfortunately its not displaying the album art yet... but we are working on it!) […]
Those of you tuned-in last week may have caught Randy Edwards' calling the J and J Midday show from his home studio with some GREAT news! Even as Randy's "Turntable Trainwrecks" has ended it's run in our noon hour, a feature we've had for probably around a decade, Randy is putting his efforts into expanding "Edwards' Archives" heard weekends on WION. Randy tells us that he'll be expanding the program to TWO hours beginning in July. This means TWICE the […]
A/K/A "AREN'T YOU GLAD YOUR CAR ISN'T AN E-V TODAY?" We try to mention on days when it's (continuously) above 90 or flirting with 90 degrees to be "conservative" in electric use. It could be coincidence, it could be overusage of the local grid, but the "outage roulette" has begun this afternoon. Parts of our listening area in town are without power. Please check on your elderly neighbors and any pets that rely on air conditioning...restoration times are predicted for […]
If you've followed the 'AM in (new) car issue, you know that Ford Motor Company recently reversed their direction and agreed to "install" AM in their new digital dashboards with an "over the air" software update. Thus, it's not that tough to INCLUDE AM in cars coming off today's assembly lines. That was ONE victory, but there are still other manufacturers doing business in the United States that need to be told that is, indeed, important to YOU. The people […]
Greetings from "one" of the J's (Jim) of the J and J Midday show. Justin is your host for the remainder of this week, as I'm on vacation for a couple days visiting familiy. He'll have your "WOW" (winning on Wednesday, formerly known as Trivia Wednesdays) and, the "Mostly Request Thursday" for you as well! Please keep him company with lots of texts and e-mails, or calls to 616-527-WION. The BIG news for the radio industry came while I was […]
As you know, WION is following and was part-of the West Michigan story about keeping AM radio as "standard" in new vehicles, both EV and non-EV. Today, Brian Winnekins of our "sister" 1430 in Durand, Wisconsin was interviewed on News Nation. FOR MORE RESOURCES AND WAYS YOU CAN HELP AM RADIO REMAIN IN VEHICLES, VISIT OUR "SAVE AM RADIO" (IN VEHICLES) PAGE BY CLICKING THIS LINK.
From yesterday's "Win on Wednesday" during the J and J Midday show, our trivia had a near record amount of texts. The question was: Stored on 500 gigabyte hard drives, and STACKED, this would be over 8 times taller than Mount Everest. What is the DATA that is being stored in "said" drives? The answer: (from "Business Insider) They (Amazon) have 1.5 billion items listed for sale and 200 million users. Amazon has one billion gigabytes of data on their […]
Yesterday WOOD TV 8 stopped by WION's Studio to get our take on automakers plans to remove AM from their new car radios. Well here is the finished product. Our thanks to WOOD TV 8 for bringing this very important issue into the public eye!
Tonight in the 7PM WOOD-TV news, WION radio will be part of a report on how automakers are, in some cases, removing AM radio from vehicles, especially the EV's the government is pushing down our throats. Joe LaFurgey and his cameraman joined the J and J midday show today and took some footage of how WE do things, and the main story was handled by our good friend and "Sister Staton" (by frequency) owner of WRDN, Durand Wisconsin who has […]
