I don't mean to suggest you be ever be outraged over anything. I think a great many people are not happy unless they are outraged over something. I think the media overuses that word. The only story recently that produced anything like outrage on my part was the murder of an 18 year old Amish girl i...

Admittedly I am in Florida, but I have been following shooting/murder news in Grand Rapids for several weeks. At the end of June, David Gunn a black man, was shot and killed at his home on Muskegon near Crosby. The three GR TV stations and MLIVE covered that shooting and his subsequent ID, More than...

Congrats to Mr. Hunt and Lucky 615. WPRR has received more attention today than it has in years. IMHO.

I think Option 1 may be mistaken about salaries etc. I topped out just a smidge over 100 K ten or 12 years ago. You live within your income and I prayed for remotes. Around 2008 I Heart didn't offer anyone (that I know of) any kind of a raise. That includes office staff. Contracts went away and the ...

MW made a brief reference recently to the WTNR voice guy. Sometime before i was made aware the I Heart elevator, in my case, only goes down. a move had begun to replace the station image "big voice"' guy or gal. These people were replaced with "artists" who sound like they were bored and had zero in...

May I offer some random observations on MW's random observation? I am not a big fan of translators. They tie of signals that might otherwise be an independent station. It is a good thing WLAV has cleaned up its audio chain, but the station itself is on a long slow ride down. The format is aging and ...

To be sure many people who are not worthy of recognition have been, Several miles from my home in Florida a state park is named for a member of Jefferson Davis' Cabinet. His only tie to my town is that he hid here for 3 days while fleeing Federal troops at the end of the Civil War. and ultimately es...

I am astonished by the lack of in-depth television news reporting on the highly offensive and controversial civil war statues in Allendale’s Veterans Garden of Honor. WOOD TV, WZZM TV, and WXMI TV News have all reported on the effort to remove the statues of a Confederate soldier and a slave child. ...

I don't believe WFGR has ever led the Townsquare stable. They caught a nice trend and GRD and LHT each got little sock in the eye. I'd have liked to have seen Matt still there to savor the moment. But I am thrilled for Moose's Dad. With respect, I don't see BFX or Max ever changing format. Sports wi...

If I may offer a few humble observations on these numbers. Listeners in cars were probably much fewer than normal. B-93 always hit a high point this time of year. I had always assumed in was part of Birthday Bash and people tuning in to see where tickets were available. With Bash pushed back to fall...

In an un-credited role, that is my Dad. He first is heard on a car radio as Reeve is driving north on Lake Shore Drive in Chicago. As I recall, Dad reads a forecast then jingles out into a jazz format. But the jingle is country and very twangy. Dad is heard again when Reeves awakens in the Grand Hot...

Eons ago when I came out of college It was generally understood that a new radio personality owed a new employer about a year and a half before looking for a new job in a larger market. That was especially true when moving expenses were paid. When I moved to Grand Rapids from Milwaukee in the early ...

How disheartening it was to hear no local radio news coverage of the situation. All I Heart had to do was look out the window.