WILX is adding a half-hour 10 PM newscast on the new MeTV subchannel beginning October 3rd. https://www.wilx.com/2022/09/23/wilx-announces-expansion-award-winning-local-news-10-10pm-metv/ I see they dropped the Studio 10 show, that was at 4 pm. That does not happen much, a station dropping a local ...

Wow! They've lost a ton of on-air talent in the past few months! Can the last one at the WWMT turn out the lights?

I noticed Stephanie McCoy was missing from the WILX "Meet the Team" page. She was hosting "Studio 10" at 4pm. I did some digging and the update I found was on the Banana & Stephanie Facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/BananaStephanie/posts/pfbid0SBdonZcdqjj112QtzZt8tYFq1Gkn9VBCSsG9R4hKhaEBn5LoWc...

I listen to WZOX a lot. They have skewed more toward Hot AC for months (lots of songs from 10-20 years ago on the playlist), but I've definitely noticed a heavier lean to alternative songs from the past 20 years within the past month or so. I used to know a lot of the older pop songs they'd play, bu...

MWmetalhead wrote: ↑

Fri Dec 03, 2021 10:44 am

Was unaware he worked in Michigan earlier in his career, btw.

He was at WILX in Lansing for a few years in the mid-2000s.Weekend anchor and weekday reporter. I've been in the Kalamazoo area for 5+ years now and didn't even know he was over here. Shows how much I watch 13.

Seth is back at WILX in Lansing. He's the new weekday morning anchor for News 10 Today.

His Twitter post: https://twitter.com/SethTVSports/status ... 6419529733

105.7 was also the default all-Christmas station for Lansing for a time, because IIRC WFMK didn't start switching on a regular basis until a couple of years ago. (They're still in regular music as I type this.) WXLA played continuous Christmas music when they were on the ABC "Timeless" and then WW1...

On Friday, Monica Harris announced she's leaving WFMK to pursue other career opportunities. She and Danny Stewart have hosted mornings on 99.1 since 2007 but worked together before that at WVIC. Danny's story on the WFMK website: https://99wfmk.com/the-end-of-an-era-danny-says-goodbye-to-monica/ Her...

I don't think WKFR (a Townsquare station) has shown a song and artist in months. It's usually plugging the morning show in all caps like you said. Very annoying. Just another reason I've been preferring the new Hits 96.5 (WZOX) to KFR lately.

With the exception of sports and all news stations, what's the chances most listeners in the 21st century don't want to hear gums flapping in the breeze? They would prefer just one song after another? No morning show(gasp). No weather. No traffic. Just one song after another, with just enough comme...

Emily's LinkedIn now lists the WILX position as Sept 2020-Aug 2021, so yup... she's definitely gone. She hasn't listed her new position yet though.

This has been such a strange year for the WILX weather department. First Darrin "retires," then he comes back part time, then he comes back full time (but says on his social media that he's not the chief meteorologist), and now here we are... right back where we started with Darrin doing mornings as...

Sholmes wrote: ↑

Thu Aug 19, 2021 8:33 pm

So they moved the Noon news to 11am

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WILX hasn't had a noon newscast in 20+ years, but in a more general "midday news is at noon" sense, I guess you could say yes, they put their "noon" newscast on at 11AM.

Here's another update to this weird gone and back story... According to David Andrews, Darrin is back full time again.

https://www.facebook.com/DavidAndrewsWi ... 7273701455

The WZZM weather deck is kind of gimmicky, but at least it's an actual outdoor studio with a green screen. The Lansing knockoff "weather patio" at WILX is literally Andy Provenzano and a camera outside. Instead of a green screen, they use a double box shot (like what you'd see when an anchor and a r...