Darrin Rockcole longtime morning WILX meteorologist is no longer with the station. He gave no explanation on his Facebook page other then stating he plans to stay in the Lansing area. David Andrews wished him a happy retirement on his Facebook page, however, since Darrin is only 54 it seems suspect.

As more people cut the cord it will be interesting to see if WILX decides to invest in a repeater south of Jackson to gain over the air coverage in Hillsdale County which is part of their official coverage area, but mostly only watchable with cable or satellite. WLNS Also does not cover that area an...

WILX is now using WLNM as a repeater to improve reception in Lansing and Clinton County. They have also added an additional TCT subchannel (10.7, 27.7). Unsure if they have increased power to 15kW. They have an application to move it to channel 29 with non-directional antenna. https://www.wilx.com/c...

Justin Bradford will take over the evening WSYM spot starting on Monday, May 18. He was previously the weekend guy. New weekend weather guy is Caleb Meute from Vermont. He worked on Mount Washington and filled in at WCAX.

FSD will eventually be back on YouTube TV. This happens all the time with satellite providers and TV station websites saying contact your provider and demand you carry their channel. Another sign of how Sinclair screws up everything... YouTube TV says it’ll be dropping Fox Sports Detroit later toda...

Not sure when it went live, but Justice is now on 10.6

With a small outdoor omni antenna Just north of Lansing I can get 4 UHF (17 when at full power, 41, 43, 64), but not 3, 8, or 13. (Using virtual channels for clarity) 13 would be difficult even if it were on UHF as its stick is in southwestern Newaygo County. The Flint/Saginaw UHFs would be much ea...

With a small outdoor omni antenna Just north of Lansing I can get 4 UHF (17 when at full power, 41, 43, 64), but not 3, 8, or 13. (Using virtual channels for clarity)

Is ION in high-definition? In any event, it's good to hear that ION is once again available in the Lansing area over-the-air. (I presume WZPX is now difficult to pick up off-air in the Lansing area following its move to extreme western Barry County.) Ion is 480 on WILX. I can still get WZPX over th...

WILX is adding Circle and Ion to existing Antenna TV and Heroes and Icons by January 1.

The odd thing about the Soo stations under STA (99.5 WYSS and 105.5 WMKD) is that they have a sister station (101.3 WSUE) still operating at 100kW

Not so odd since WSUE uses a different tower.

jm wrote: ↑

Thu Feb 14, 2019 5:40 pm

Any idea where the transmitter is located? From the other reports, I'd guess NW of the city.

WATT tower southside of town.

Brett Collar will be taking his place according to his Twitter feed.

This article is from June. Station is on the air with reduced power. https://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.ex ... _num=36532