CHYR had a decent daytime signal into Lansing when they were on 710 way back when. WVIC-AM 730 was an AM daytimer that signed off at local sunset, about the same time CHYR made the switch from 710 to 730. I remember the "clockwork" sounds and announcement to tune to 730. As WVIC was usually off the ...

Hopefully Russia doesn't revert to old-school Soviet jamming of incoming SW signals from outside "the curtain". To my knowledge the U.S. has never engaged in any such jamming. I remember tuning to Radio Moscow in the Cold War days for some entertaining communist propaganda. The announcers always sou...

To my knowledge yes.

Good move for Midwest!

The Warner Media/Discovery Networks merger is expected to close sometime mid-year. Discovery will be the controlling partner in the new company. Indications from their top brass are that changes will likely be in the works at CNN once the merger closes. What changes will occur remains to be seen. Th...

I will be pleasantly surprised if autopsy results on COD turn up clean. If not that, massive heart attack or stroke From what I hear Mr. Saget didn't drink or drug. Could have been the ol' widow-maker valve. Stroke or aneurism isn't out of the question. Honestly, I didn't know the other side of Bob...

I thought Channel 7 news was well received in Lansing when it was on 53 decades ago. Why are they not using the WYXZ team for this? The WXYZ simulcast on WLAJ was billboarded as "Regional Action News". It was really just Detroit local news in Lansing. Not unusual as a lot of folks outstate read Det...

Have they seen The Matrix?

That's baffling. I'd think Duke would stick to what it does best. Filling the Classic Country niche has made it successful in the market. I could see rotating Christmas songs from core artists in the standard format, but deviating this far from their brand with music from artists not related to the ...

I had the Pfizer booster. Zero side effects other than the metallic taste the first 10 minutes after. No fatigue and the arm was barely sore.

The Moderna shot seems to hit harder. People I know who have had Moderna tend to be down and out the day after. Pfizer seems like the milder of the two.

Perhaps the bigger question is, are people encouraged to research this? Sources can be biased, but should there exist credible evidence to support the story, the source is secondary. There's a temptation these days (and I will include myself in this) to judge the merits of a story by who presents it...

100.5 The River in GR was going all-Christmas after Thanksgiving as early as 1998. So was 101.5 The River in Toledo. If I'm not mistaken it was 920 WOKY in Milwaukee, then a standards outlet, that pioneered the all-Christmas format around 1995. But it didn't seem to really become a widespread thing...

Christmas is a religious season that begins December 25th and continues through the Feast of the Epiphany on January 6th. The four weeks leading up to Christmas are the season of Advent. Of course the Madison Avenue version is a different entity. While I enjoy certain aspects of the secular holiday ...

A lot of stations flip to Christmas music shortly after Halloween. The early All-Christmas format really took shape in 2001 during the season following 9/11. I remember when Star 105.7 made the flip in early November with the tag line because we need a little Christmas NOW! It was the first time I h...

Calvert: you’d think Sinclair could distribute syndicated programming to its stations via a daily satellite feed (like the good ole days). However that only solves one part of the problem. Many of our playback servers still are corrupted with ransomware. It's a nice thought, but I think that ship h...