Monday, November 24, 2014

11.24.14 BACK PAGE: Free Beer and Hot Wings back on the air in northern Michigan


11.23.14
THEY'RE BACK!
Free Beer and Hot Wings are back on the northern Michigan airwaves
After an absence of a year and a half, the Grand Rapids-based Free Beer and Hot Wings morning show are back on the air on not one, but two northern Michigan radio stations.

Cadillac's WKAD 93.7 and Petoskey's WMBN 1340 - both airing a sports format called "The Ticket" and owned by Trish MacDonald Garber - added FB&HW recently to their schedules. The show only airs from 5 a.m. to 9 a.m. so they could air Dan Patrick.

Previously, FB&HW aired on Real Rock 105 and 95-5. However, the show was dropped from the simulcasting sisters in late March 2013 and 95.5 flipped to a low-rated easy listening format, "Easy 95-5". 105.1 still airs a rock format as "Rock 105" with morbidly obese Brian "Cartman" Pfiffer handling mornings. The main reason for FB&HW's departure from 105.1/95.5 was due to the effect on the ratings of sister classic rocker The Bear and their milquetoast morning show, Bob and Tom. 

For a while, it looked like FB&HW would reappear up north on WOUF 99.3 out of Beulah, a station that was silent for nearly two years but was previously rock as "99.3 The Wolf". 99.3 is back on the air, but as a conservative talk format. 

However, WMBN and WKAD's signals are class C and A respectively, and only eyelash kiss the Grand Traverse Region. FB&HW are also carried on classic rock WWTH Thunder 100.7 Oscoda, which has a marginal signal to Mio, West Branch and Alpena.

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