On the subject of slogans, I seem to recall that both WDRQ and WKQI used the slogan "Today's Best Music" simultaneously for a very short time circa 1997. That happened after DRQ dropped the "Detroit's Dance Music" tagline and added some Modern AC product to sound a little more like a mainstream CHR ...

Technically, Detroit's period without a mainstream CHR station began at the end of 1992, when 99.5 The Fox disappeared in favor of Wow-FM (and later WYCD). WHYT reported as a mainstream CHR (as Radio & Records didn't have a Rhythmic panel yet), but they were straight up Rhythmic/Churban, not dissimi...

Reminds me of the comment sections on the 9/11 videos I watch. It's either: *anchor stays calm and says they don't want to assume anything* "Oh my GOD how did they not know it was terrorism!?!? I knew it right away! Ugh! Stupid media!" Or "Oh if this happened today the anchors would be beside thems...

eHarmony used Natalie Cole's "This Will Be" for years. I never saw it again after Natalie's death, though. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jg0wD8gNtgQ Geico used Roy Orbison's "Ride Away" to illustrate "free range chicken" a few years back. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swjMqIiSBhg On the topic of...

Was this local or network?
Channel 4 had a show called "Beat the Champ" back in the '60s... it aired late at night but allegedly had hee-yooge ratings. Which I suppose isn't hard if you're the only program on the air at 1:30am.

PBS and NPR obviously don't cater to those whose idea of "solid educational programming" is PragerU. Fortunately, if that describes you, you have other options where you can rest assured you'll never hear anyone who isn't a heterosexual, cisgender WASP described in anything less than demonizing term...

Appears to be a corporate move, as all of Gray's NBC affiliates did the same. Gray having bad blood with NBC? Apparently Gray is moving to de-emphasize network affiliations for all of their stations, according to this forum thread: https://forums.tvnewstalk.net/topic/17000-the-ever-evolving-gray-gr...

Here’s more on the channel changes: https://thedesk.net/2023/12/outlaw-the365-replacing-circle-country-january-2024/ https://www.wilx.com/2023/12/19/new-channel-line-up-coming-wilx-january-1-2024/ It also appears that WILX and sister station WLUC owner Gray TV just extended its NBC affiliations: ht...

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Sun Dec 31, 2023 1:15 am

How the hell did I miss this? This isn't far from me, either. Absolutely terrible. Those poor souls.

You live in Brighton, IIRC. My mom's girlfriend works at the Brighton Costco and said she felt nothing. Maybe there was an "acoustic shadow" of sorts?

https://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/2023/12/4-dead-2-injured-in-house-explosion-near-whitmore-lake.html I live probably 2 or 3 miles away (on the other side of 23 and of the lake), but the blast shook my house and scared us all shitless. Anyone else hear/feel it? I've heard it was felt as far away ...

My sister just came down with it for the second time. She's vaccinated, but I think members of her husband's family are not and she saw them on Christmas Eve - and I then saw her on Christmas Day, before she started feeling sick. I haven't shown symptoms yet (and I got my latest booster about a mont...

I suppose it's possible they could have been on night power during the day. I thought it would have still been possible to hear them in Dewitt (where I noted them apparently off) even with 3 watts.
However, on Christmas Day when visiting family in Okemos, they seemed to be back to normal.

For anyone who cares (which apparently is nobody), WWSJ's back on the air. Heard it yesterday.

Whatever (if anything) you celebrate, enjoy it and stay safe!

WITI had to have been something of a headache in the western fringes of the WJIM-TV/WLNS coverage area, especially during the summer tropo season. I was never once able to pick up the channel 67 translator signal when I lived in Saline, for what that's worth. Of course, my rabbit ears often had trou...