Long-time listener, first time poster.
I've been listening to WION since the two Jims rescued it from the dead several years ago. I'm a 30 year old male from Grand Rapids' east side and love the station, and even more when the signal was augmented to cover GR and Lansing better. I do have a Sirius, but I do have a soft side for I1430.
True, I enjoy hard rock and metal, but if you're in Ionia County, that's WGRD and Q106's job. A community-minded Full-Server should do what I1430 is doing: play a wide variety of hits from the 1950's onward. I think that in a world where radio's overly-run by suits in the big cities, WION is a great escape where decisions are locally made by people who know and care about their audience and not stockholders. It's cookie cutter logic that caused Citadel and Regent to go bankrupt, and it might hit Clear Channel sooner or later (after all, they're $20 BILLION in debt).
It's one reason I love WION: it's a success story seeing them go from days away from getting their license canceled by the FCC to growing from one 5KW station to four different frequencies. In an age when radio's barely profitable and the market's down, it's nothing short of astonishing.
If I were to change WION, I would.... You know... Keep it as it is. Keep up the good work.
