November 8, 2026
Entertainment
Hey y'all! I am sharing this with you in the hopes that we get better acquainted. Truth is, I have a really hard time talking about myself. REALLY hard time. Like anyone else from Michigan, the idea of bragging...by about 1975, it was made abundantly clear that...
Sounding the third alarm. It’s truly a piece I’d rather not be writing. But, I have to because once upon a time, I had this dream of being on the radio. What I dreamed about was one thing. It was an escape into the fantasy world of rock and roll. What I grew into…was...
Long about 1970 there was an arrival at St. Mary's Hospital. A young couple that lived just off Leonard on Houseman Street across from his parents house brought this kid in to the world who would one day return....after having a thing or two to do with "vinyl...
Tyler Kuehl is coming on to help out at the GR Channel. Tyler is born and bred right here in Grand Rapids, a Northview grad..a dad of two little ones, and as his collegiate and juniors hockey career took a shift, he found himself in a pretty interesting position. ...
The search for things for kids to do that doesn't involve staring at a screen, sitting there pointlessly and you going nuts trying to motivate them.....it's actually a lot more than just them sitting there. While they are, things are dwindling most likely. Things...
It's gotta cross over. In Muskegon, for 63 years, we've had a radio show called Polka Melodies. Tom Sanocki is the current host of the show and has been at it 30 of those years. Out of nowhere, a small AM radio station that Tom was hosting the show on cut him off...
We are pleased to announce that we'll be having a premiere of the latest film from our friend Robert Michael titled "Fiddle Faddle Fortune". You can get a peek at the trailer for the film here!! "In the aftermath of cursing someone to murder her husband, a local...
Some seven miles from where I now live in Stony Lake, the air is shattered on a regular basis by the ear-splitting roar of beastly beach buggies piloted by testosterone-fueled he-men spewing silica all about the Silver Lake sand dunes. Me? I do the Whippy Dip. It’s...
If you've been counting, it's been 3872 days since Tom Rademacher left his post writing columns for the paper that focused on story telling on a different level than "Just the Facts, Ma'am". There's been a lot of changes in every format of media since 2009....some...
We're very fortunate to have a "back end" of our publications. We're able to bring some pretty major live streams to life to help organizations with their video needs. One of the organizations is the Miss Michigan Scholarship Program who we began to work with a few...
To begin, I thought that a guy named Denny Byker was the artist. Denny is a Facebook friend and I saw a photo on his page once and was blown away. He caught wind of the new GR Channel and said "Come on over sometime." I was stunned. "An artist of your magnitude?...
It's an honor to be able to bring you some exciting news about a new show coming to TV this week. On WZZM 13+ at 11:35p on Friday nights, you'll find West Michigan Tonight with Host Jon Covington. Who's Jon Covington? Well that's what we're here to answer for you. ...
