In advance of my 500 TOH ID project being released in about a week featuring the legal IDs of 500 regularly-heard area FM stations as recorded this summer, here are some regional IDs for now.
I have these recordings grouped by market (Milwaukee, Northern Michigan, Mid-Michigan, West Michigan, Detroit, Chicagoland, Green Bay, etc.) in addition to the full 5 1/2-hour compilation that is in somewhat procrastinated post-editing after my 130 hours of attended recordings were edited over the past 7 months.
Listen: FREMONT - 50 LOCAL STATIONS / TOP-OF-HOUR IDs
For the full 87-station compilation of the entire West Michigan region, check out the post below.
The completed project will be posted in the Engineering & DX'ing forum when completed and will be linked in this thread at that time as well for those who don't usually pay attention to those posts.
But in the meantime as I finish the full project, here is a compilation of my local stations here in Fremont - the 50 strongest stations as heard here - recorded on my portable Grundig G8 just walking around the living room.
Some notes: 100.1 fails to give a legal ID at all; they give a(n illegal) ID at the top of the hour as WVIB Muskegon instead of their proper required COL of Holton. No hidden IDs or any other legal IDs are given; maybe they just don't wanna associate their R&B music with a more... redneck... hamlet they're not targeting. WGHN Grand Haven gives only their standard ID they've been giving all year as "WTHN Grand Haven". I mean, listen all you want, but all their IDs say WTHN (like someone ordered a legal ID package over the phone, was misunderstood, and nobody wanted to correct it? Shame, as the station used to be top-notch all around and can't even get their IDs right or keep 93.1 from dead air constantly on weekends). WFBE in Flint does some funny business with their IDs too, but they've got enough that sometimes they run an easy-to-understand "WFBE" and other times a "WMT Flint" ID. I recorded them like 15 times trying to avoid those awkward ones.
In addition, I also have a compilation of West Michigan as a whole with 87 stations (as heard from home) which I can post soon enough and includes all the rest that most in this forum would tune in around the region.
Here is the station list for my fifty strongest stations from home:
MARKET TOP-OF-HOUR IDs: FREMONT LOCAL STATIONS (50 stations)
The 50 strongest stations as heard from Fremont
*88.1 WYCE MI Wyoming / 10kw / AAA (41 mi.)
*88.3 WSMZ MI Crystal Valley / 1.5kw / Smile FM (21 mi.)
*88.5 WGVU MI Allendale / 4kw / NPR Public //95.3 (28 mi.)
*88.7 WIAA MI Interlochen / 100kw / Classical IPR (57 mi.)
*88.9 WBLU MI Grand Rapids / 650w / Blue Lake Public R. //90.3 (37 mi.)
*89.3 WGNB MI Zeeland / 30kw / Moody Radio (44 mi.)
*89.5 WCMU MI Mt. Pleasant / 100kw / CMU Public R. (59 mi.)
*89.7 WNHG MI Grand Rapids / 3.2kw / Strong Tower R. (38 mi.)
*90.3 WBLV MI Twin Lake / 100kw / Blue Lake Public R. //88.9 (7 mi.)
*91.1 WOLW MI Cadillac / 50kw / The Promise FM (57 mi.)
*91.3 WCSG MI Grand Rapids / 37kw / Cont. Christian (49 mi.)
*91.7 WMCQ MI Muskegon / 6kw / American Family R. (11 mi.)
*92.1 WGHN MI Grand Haven / 6kw / Adult Contemp. (32 mi.)
*92.5 WLAW MI Newaygo / 2.25kw / Nash Icon (11 mi.)
*93.1 WMPA MI Ferrysburg / 6kw / Cl. Rock 93.1 (32 mi.)
*93.7 WBCT MI Grand Rapids / 320kw / B-93 (61 mi.)
*94.1 WWKR MI Hart / 5kw / K-Rock (21 mi.)
*94.5 WTNR MI Holland / 50kw / Nash FM (42 mi.)
*95.1 WIIL WI Union Grove / 50kw / WIIL Rock (117 mi.)
*95.3 WGVS MI Whitehall / 2kw / NPR Public //88.5 (21 mi.)
*95.7 WLHT MI Grand Rapids / 40kw / Mix 95.7 (33 mi.)
*96.1 WMAX MI Holland / 50kw / ESPN 96.1 FM (45 mi.)
*96.9 WLAV MI Grand Rapids / 20kw / 97 LAV-FM (43 mi.)
*97.3 WDEE MI Reed City / 2.85kw / Sunny 97.3 (27 mi.)
*97.5 WWSN MI Whitehall / 3kw / Sunny 97.5 (20 mi.)
*97.9 WGRD MI Grand Rapids / 13kw / 97-9 GRD (49 mi.)
*98.3 WLCS MI North Muskegon / 1.6kw / Cl. Hits 98.3 (15 mi.)
*98.7 WFGR MI Grand Rapids / 2.75kw / Cl. Hits (33 mi.)
*99.1 WMYX WI Milwaukee / 50kw / The Mix (113 mi.)
*99.3 WJQK MI Zeeland / 4.7kw / JQ99.3 (45 mi.)
*99.7 WUGN MI Midland / 100kw / Family Life R. (70 mi.)
*100.1 WVIB MI Holton / 2.9kw / V100 (15 mi.) +
*100.5 WTRV MI Walker / 3kw / The River (33 mi.)
*100.7 WKKV WI Racine / 50kw / V100.7 (116 mi.)
*100.9 WWBR MI Big Rapids / 6kw / Big Country (27 mi.)
*101.3 WBFX MI Grand Rapids / 50kw / The Brew (42 mi.)
*101.7 WMRR MI Muskegon Hts. / 12kw / Rock 101.7 (24 mi.)
*102.3 WYBR MI Big Rapids / 10.5kw / Y-102 (24 mi.)
*102.7 WMOM MI Pentwater / 6kw / MOM-FM (35 mi.)
*102.9 WFUR MI Grand Rapids / 50kw / Christian (38 mi.)
*103.5 WTCM MI Traverse City / 100kw / Country //93.5 (70 mi.)
*104.1 WVGR MI Grand Rapids / 96kw / Michigan R. (60 mi.)
*104.5 WSNX MI Muskegon / 32kw / CHR (19 mi.) x2
*105.3 WHTS MI Coopersville / 20kw / Hot FM (11 mi.)
*105.7 WSRW MI Grand Rapids / 265kw / Star 105.7 (60 mi.)
*106.3 WGLM MI Lakeview / 3kw / M106-3 & M-1380 (34 mi.)
*106.5 WVFM MI Kalamazoo / 33kw / FM 106.5 (72 mi.)
*106.9 WOOD MI Muskegon / 50kw / NewsRadio 106.9 & 1300 (18 mi.)
*107.3 WBBL MI Greenville / 50kw / Sports (43 mi.)
*107.9 WMUS MI Muskegon / 15kw / The Moose (24 mi.)
Of the stations (tower sites, specifically) shown on this map, the green ones are the top 50 in this mini-compilation; pink are simply translators included in the full project:
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