On December 4, Jackson Radio Works’ WKHM-AM/FM held its annual toy drive to benefit Toys for Tots. This year, the drive was held from 3 to 6 p.m. at Blain’s Farm & Fleet with personalities Greg O’Connor, Scott Clow, and Jenny Lewis on hand, broadcasting. In addition to toys, listeners were also invited to bring… read more
Latitude Media’s WCZY-FM/WMMI-AM (Mt. Pleasant) held their annual “Fill a Mayflower” drive on November 22, raising a record number of non-perishable food items as well as monetary donations to be given to area food pantries. The event began at 6 a.m. and continued through 6 p.m. In an article posted in the Morning Sun, station… read more
On December 2, Entercom’s WWJ-AM (Detroit) announced that the station will pair celebrated journalists and on-air hosts Jackie Paige and Jason Scott as their new afternoon drive team, effective December 9. Paige and Scott will be heard on air, weekdays from 2:00 to 7:00 p.m. Subsequently, on-air host Brooke Allen will continue to keep listeners… read more
WCMU Public Radio (Mt. Pleasant) has announced that its sixth annual Warm Hearts, Warm Homes campaign raised $65,000 during the month of November. The campaign provides home-heating assistance programs across central and northern Michigan. When a listener donates to WCMU during Warm Hearts, Warm Homes campaign, they trigger matching funds from Consumers Energy and Isabella… read more
WXYZ/WMYD-TV (Detroit) VP & General Manager Mike Murri and Editorial Director Chuck Stokes recently presented Bob Scripps Community Grants from the Scripps Howard Foundation to five local non-profits. Leaders of the Judson Center, Rainbow Connection, Winning Futures, the American Human Rights Council and the Detroit Goodfellows accepted the grant awards for their extraordinary organziations that… read more
Michigan Radio (WUOM-FM/WFUM-FM/WVGR-FM-Ann Arbor) has been selected as a host newsroom by Report for America. As part of this initiative, Michigan Radio will hire a new reporter who will focus on coverage of mental health care in Michigan. A recent study found nearly 670,000 Michiganders with mental illness and more than 500,000 with a substance… read more
Its been announced that Armada Media’s AMC Partners Escanaba, LLC (Radio Results Network) is acquiring four stations from Randy Michaels’ Radioactive, LLC. The deal was filed with the FCC on November 27. Radio Results has been operating the stations since 2016 under a local marketing agreement. The stations include WUPZ-FM (Chocolay Township/Marquette), WUPT-FM (Gwinn/Marquette), WUPF-FM… read more
The MAB has learned that Central Michigan University football and men’s basketball broadcaster Don Chiodo died Wednesday, December 4, from injuries he suffered in a traffic accident that same day. The 1990 graduate of CMU joined the football broadcasts in 1996 and eventually became the play-by-play voice in 2010. Chiodo had been calling men’s basketball… read more
Michigan, specifically Kent County, will become the focus of national attention as the 2020 presidential election unfolds. NBC News political director Chuck Todd announced Sunday that Kent County will be one of five counties across the country that will get intense scrutiny as part of the network’s coverage. “If you look at a place like Grand… read more
via Peg McNichol, www.whtc.com Sixty years ago, Bill Gargano turned on WHTC’s microphone and started talking, inviting listeners to call the station. His idea of a radio show aimed at letting people get things “off their chest and onto the radio” turned into a show so neighborly, listeners often felt as if they were talking… read more
