MLive is reporting that West Michigan iHeart stations, faced with the postponement of the 2020 high school football season due to the COVID-19 pandemic, will be offering sports fans “Flashback Fridays” beginning August 28. The company’s WMAX-FM (Grand Rapids) and WMUS-FM (Muskegon) will be airing classic high school football matchups from the past for 10…
A couple of Michigan station sales have been announced this past week. An application for assignment of WLAJ-TV (Lansing) was filed with the FCC on August 21. The seller is WLAJ-TV LLC., headed by Sheldon Galloway of Lafayette, La. WLAJ-TV LLC has owned the station since 2013. The buyer is Mission Broadcasting of Witchita Falls, Texas,…
The Michigan High School Athletic Association (MHSAA) has notified Athletic Directors around the state that they’ve updated their rules on live video broadcast/streaming of events with limited spectatorship. While radio rules remain the same, these changes loosen the rules for television and local over-the-air TV stations and cable channels may now broadcast games live. The…
Michigan Ag Today (MAT) announced this week that several leading radio stations have joined its growing farm radio network. These stations will bring the timely, relevant and credible programming on MAT to the farming community in north central and northwest Michigan. WMMI-AM-FM (Mt. Pleasant), added 3 MAT programs to its strong local informational programming. WBRN-AM/FM…
By: Seth Resler Jacobs Media Strategies Unfortunately, in the wake of the ongoing pandemic, we are seeing radio stations lose staff members to budget cuts. Even in the best of times, staff turnover can create disruption for radio stations that are unprepared. Often, that disruption looks like this: An employee departs and that person is…
One Nation, a nonprofit organization affiliated with the GOP super PAC Senate Leadership Fund, reserved $4.5 million in television, radio time and cable advertising that began airing across Michigan on Wednesday (8/19), according to a report in Roll Call. It is the group’s first advertising buy this cycle in Michigan’s Senate race between incumbent Democrat Gary…
This week, Entercom’s WWJ-AM (Detroit) celebrated a century of service to Southeast Michigan. It was August 20, 1920 when experimental station 8MK began broadcasting and has continued to broadcast news, information, sports and entertainment each day since. Not only was WWJ Detroit’s first radio station, it was the first commercial broadcaster in the country. It…
Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey (R-16) told his supporters in an email this week that the Unlock Michigan effort to repeal the law allowing Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to issue many of her COVID-19 related orders has collected 200,000 signatures so far, according to a report by Gongwer. The Unlock Michigan ballot question committee is working…
The Supreme Court has begun putting cases on its fall calendar but has yet to decide whether to hear the appeal over media ownership regulations and efforts continue to convince the justices to review the case, according to a report in InsideRadio. At issue is whether a federal appeals court in Philadelphia overstepped its authority…
In conjunction with NPR 1A host Jenn White’s appearance as a one-day “takeover” host of the station’s Stateside program this past Tuesday, Stateside interviewed White to talk about about her career and public radio. White is a veteran of Michigan Radio and was longtime local host of All Things Considered before leaving for Chicago’s WBEZ-FM…