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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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!
