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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
