I watched some of WOOD TV's coverage on YouTube of the Van Buren County/Lawton area tornado warning. Impressive job as always.
We all know the reason why WWMT is pathetic.. eight letters, starts with S, ends with R.

9&10 had cable coverage in parts of the Thumb as well. WNEM and WJRT were carried in the Michigan Sault in place of the northern Michigan affiliates of NBC and ABC. 29&8 didn't even have cable coverage in the Michigan Sault, which also got WJRT (both 7&4 and WNEM were carried on the Michigan side)....

9&10 had cable coverage in parts of the Thumb as well. WNEM and WJRT were carried in the Michigan Sault in place of the northern Michigan affiliates of NBC and ABC. 29&8 didn't even have cable coverage in the Michigan Sault, which also got WJRT (both 7&4 and WNEM were carried on the Michigan side). ...

I asked on their FB page if this was due to a lightning strike. They replied that the cause is still under investigation.

Lightning strike?

Adrian radio veteran Peter Stewart passed on February 19 at age 62. He had worked at WLEN, WQTE and WABJ, This is from WLEN's Facebook page: "This Friday we will be having an on-air tribute to our friend, Peter Stewart, who passed away last week. Peter was a big fan of Friday Flashbacks, so we thoug...

I believe CFPL was carried on cable in parts of the Thumb. I don’t think it is now. The TVO Windsor repeater was on cable in some Metro systems. It may still be in isolated spots. I don’t believe CBEFT was on any Michigan system at any point. Same goes for CHWI and CHCH (the latter does, or did, ma...

Global was not carried in the Free Press TV listings in the '80s, although CKCO 42 was. IIRC, it had a similar footprint in Michigan both OTA and cable. CHBX 2 (still in analog) has never been on cable in the Michigan Sault (although it was at one time carried in Newberry and Rogers City). CJIC 5 (C...

I remember watching the Care Bears on Saturday morning in the late '80s on channel 29 from my grandparents' house in Romeo. It came in quite well with their outdoor antenna. If it's gone, that's the end of local OTA TV in Sarnia/Port Huron, with CKCO 42 and the CBC/SRC Toronto repeaters long gone. I...

CKLW was a popular music station into the early '80s so it doesn't surprise me that the CKWW format has included some early '80s. During the first attempt at a "Big 8" style oldies revival on 93.9 in the late '80s, they played Whitney Houston. As for WPON, I have heard them play songs as recent as "...

WGTE makes it to the Lansing area frequently during tropo, as does 103.7 WCKY. Not too hard since the closest nearby stations on the frequency are WCSG and flea-powered WOES.

Not sure about CBEFT, but there was a station (also French-language) in the Ottawa market in the '70s that lost its license for airing softcore adult films. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CFVO-TV Meanwhile, CITY-TV in Toronto had the late-night "Baby Blue Movies" and faced an obscenity charge for it ...

Nothing new received in Whitmore Lake but it was still nice to have a tropo opening so early in the year. Some highlights: 88.5 Smile FM (WCTP) from the Thumb 90.3 WBLV Twin Lake 91.3 WCSG 94.1 WHST from the Thumb 95.7 WLHT 95.9 FM96 London 97.3 WMEE Fort Wayne 100.5 WSGW-FM 100.9 CBC Radio 1 Wingha...

With so many Beautiful Music stations in Detroit at that time and most of them being FM Stereo operations, how they thought a 250-watt AM station could compete with that is beyond me. WQTE had the advantage of being at a low dial position and getting into the format before the market was heavily FM ...