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Detroit free-form radio legends WWWW/W-4 and WABX and is now back there 40 years later in sales capacities); local talent Marty Spaulding (later with WRKR in Kalamazoo for 10 year hosting an internationally recognized blues format "netcast" in the early days of internet broadcasting); Jon "Patrick" Rekeweg from Am radio in Fort Wayne; Bob Greenwood (from the legendary free-form rock station WHNN in Bay City); Dave "Leighton" Elliott; and Alan "White" Vasquez, a former host of the avant-garde "Pen Ultimate" late night alternative rock show on competitor WCCW) who went on to numerous roles in broadcast programming where he still resides in Colorado.
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among others - wanted to start a radio station, but in an undeveloped radio market. They decided that
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Boardman River (then moving it), then become news anchor for WWTV 9&10 news (a position he held for many
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January 2014, WTCM NewsTalk 580 introduced The Afternoon Drive to replace the Sean Hannity slot 3 to 6pm weekdays. Norm Jones and Bill Froehlich hosted the show and focused on a variety of local news topics. Norm Jones died in 2020. Sean Hannity has since returned to the time slot and Bill
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Northern Michigan stations since 2006. In 2014 she started hosting her own show from 10am to noon. The show ended in 2022.
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blend of news, information and interviews with local and statewide figures from politics, arts & entertainment, education, business, etc. Jolly left the station for ten months in 2001 to join the Michigan Talk Radio Network based in Charlevoix.
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WTCM initially broadcast from a small studio at the base of the tower on Morgan ("Radio") Hill, west of town. The WTCM control console was hand built by Biederman and Kiker, and served the station from 1940 until its replacement around 1980.
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