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WILX’s Fred Heumann among inductees into 2024 Greater Lansing Sports Hall of Fame
Longtime sports anchor and reporter Fred Heumann will be among the inductees for the 2024 Greater Lansing Sports Hall of Fame. Heumann has covered local sports for more than four decades at TV and radio stations in the Lansing, Flint, and Detroit media markets.
Read MoreMichigan Radio Presents An Evening with Peter Sagal
On Tuesday, January 23, Michigan Radio will present its next Radio Speaker Series event, this time featuring NPR Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me! host Peter Sagal Sagal will be interviewed by Stateside host April Baer. They’ll discuss what it takes to do a show like “Wait Wait,” his favorite guests, how they keep it funny every week and more.
Read MoreWGVU to Bring Ira Glass to Grand Rapids This April
WGVU Public Media (Grand Rapids) has announced that Ira Glass, creator and host of public radio’s This American Life is coming to DeVos Performance Hall on Saturday, April 6, 2024 at 8 p.m. Glass will share his “Seven Things I’ve Learned,” a live performance that covers his career in seven points.
Read MoreWKAR’s Melanie McGuire Graduates from Public Media Diversity Fellowship Program
Melanie McGuire of WKAR Public Media (East Lansing) is one of 30 distinguished public media leaders from across the country to graduate from the Public Media Diversity Leaders Initiative (PMDLI).
Read MoreBroadcast Regulation Does Not Take a Vacation: FCC Resolves 2018 Quadrennial Review with No Significant Changes in Ownership Rules; Proposes a Reporting System for Retransmission Blackouts; and Advances New EEO Reporting Rules
Well, there has been news, including the resolution of the FCC’s long-delayed 2018 Quadrennial Review of the broadcast ownership rules.
Read MoreDetroit Icon Ken Calvert Passes at 72
Ken Calvert, who was on Detroit radio for over 40 years, died on Wednesday. He was 72. He worked for several Detroit rock stations, such as WRIF-FM, WCSX-FM, WWWW-FM, WLLZ-FM and others. He was also a Detroit Pistons PA announcer for 16 years.
Read MoreMichigan Radio’s Beenish Ahmed named to ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network
ProPublica has announced that Michigan Radio’s criminal justice reporter Beenish Ahmed has been selected to join their Local Reporting Network. Ahmed and Michigan Radio will be one of five partner newsrooms and local journalists to be added to the ProPublica Network.
Read MoreWCSR’s Bob Flynn Raises Nearly 13k for Salvation Army
On December 15, McKibbin Media Group WCSR-FM (Hillsdale) afternoon host, Bob Flynn raised $12,904.85 in just five hours of his Salvation Army Red Kettle Campaign bell ringing.
Read MoreDon Swindell: 1953-2023
On December 11, Detroit radio veteran Don Swindell passed away at age 70. Throughout his career, Swindell served as Creative Services Director/Executive Morning Show Producer at WDFN-AM (1994-2002); APD/Creative Director at WXYT-AM/FM (2002-2007), and Imaging Director for CBS Radio Detroit (2008-2015).
Read MoreAround the Dial: Network Moves in Michigan
A couple of Michigan TV stations have announced some changes to their channel lineup, all effective on January 1.
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