So, this is what my digging has found. First tigers game was broadcast on WWJ in 1927. Ty Tyson was the announcer. That fact is well known. The Wikipedia article on tiger announcers actually lists two announcers starting in 1934. Harry Heilmann shows up. I googled his name and the Tigers and found o...

Being in one of the nighttime nulls and trying to listen to the tigers on 590, I can confirm that they are back on the directional.

I tuned into WKZO to listen to the Tigers game, and I heard them talk about how they have been broadcasting the Tigers for over 50 years. So, being the history buff, I wondered if there was anybody who's been doing it for longer. I know that Fetzer owned the Tigers and WKZO in the 50s, but I think t...

Well it looks like WKZO lives and dies with the Tigers. WVFM also dropped in BC. I wonder what their morning drive time numbers are...

And I hope that this book kills the Christmas music push. I used Pandora way to much this last couple of months.

Wait, they are calling the new sports stations "The Ticket"? I wonder if they talked to Entercom before hand. Because didn't Midwest get into trouble with when they tried to take WQTX back to "The Ticket" and instead called it "The Team"?

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Thu Nov 01, 2018 11:01 pm

Could 106.5 be flipping formats after the holidays?

Oh, so close. I just heard WZOX switch to Jack FM. That makes it now 5 formats since Midwest bought the station?