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 […]
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 […]
This Sunday morning it appears by monitoring a Facebook group dedicated to certain internet outages that our 1003 FM is not on the air. By FCC regulation, any time there is no audio detected at the transmitter site, the transmitter has to shut down until audio returns. Our audio is handled by two different internet companies, Spectrum (Formerly Charter) in Ionia and Point Broadband fiber in Lowell. A drop in […]
If you're a WION listener and have not caught Justin's new solo Friday morning show, "The Coffee Hour"....put a reminder in your phones or devices now for next Friday morning at 8 AM. It airs just before the "Totally 80's Flashback" and is his very own show, music, and chat with you. Some acoustic music, some local, some folk, some not.... He's doing a great job with this, and as […]
When we're not bringing you Jim and Justin or Edwards' Archives, or our Noon Newsblock, or "Totally 80's Flashback" or...Turntable Trainwrecks, or Popeye John's Monday Night Classic Rock"....or Barry Scott's Lost 45's....we're still working hard to bring you a great station with music and information EVERY hour!
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