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What has happened or may happen in the local music scene
This is our old friend Al Jacquez and his wife Judy – Al was put in the Michigan Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Bay City in 2024. We have followed his career since Savage Grace, Measured Chaos, and most recently as a solo artist performing his ONE VOICE – ONE GUITAR set. The […]
WOAS-FM Awards for 2023-24 Student volunteers from the Ontonagon Area Schools were recently recognized for their contributions to WOAS-FM 88.5. The radio station is owned by the school district and operates from the studios located in the K-12 school library. Some of the service awards bear the names of past WOAS-FM managers in honor of […]
The day FTV: Name That Tune came out in the Ontonagon Herald (March 13, 2024), my phone rang. On the other end of the line was one of Ontonagon’s favorite singers, Jim Brogan. He said, “You know that little quiz in the paper? I can’t believe you couldn’t identify Under the Boardwalk!” For those of […]
Perhaps you have tuned in to our website and wondered why the sound is so thin on the audio . . . let me condense this the best I can. Our server decided it was beyond its shelf life right after we had a big power outage in the area. Oh, the backup battery kept […]
Every other year or so, we like to run a recap of WOAS-FM events from the recent past. This time it will be a little different as the year 2023 leaves us and makes way for 2024. We have a lot to look back on and are counting our blessings for what has turned […]
Greetings – things are taking shape – we are running our new transmitter at 88.5 at 50 watts until we get the new equipment bay here – due to arrive in Mid-October. Moving the electronics from the hard to reach upper shelf where they have been since our last remodel in 1998 will make things […]
First, let me apologize in advance for how many times we are going to say ‘Thank You’ in this FTV. There are only so many words that can fit what happened to WOAS-FM 88.5 in the past five months but the most important two are ‘Thank You’. We would be remiss to not thank […]
Quick update -The full story of John Carlisle and Ryan Garza from the Detroit Free Press visiting WOAS-FM to do a story on the station and our need for a new transmitter is out there. The Free Press posted the link for one day and now it comes up asking you to subscribe to view […]
Early in the spring of 2023, John Carlisle from the Detroit Free Press called the WOAS-FM studio to inquire how our fundraising was going. It didn’t dawn on me to ask where he had heard about our need to purchase a new transmitter but I told him, “We are just getting started on it and […]
When recently asked to present ‘something about how things have changed around here’ for the Ontonagon County Historical Society, I said, “Let me think about it before I say ‘yes’ or ‘no’.” There are already many volumes available about the history of the area (see: Knox Jamison, Earl Doyle, and Bruce Johanson for starters), […]