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Schedule of Events: 62nd Annual Perchville USA "Luau on the Lake" Feb. 3rd - 5th, buttons are Only $5.00 Available NOW!!  Get yours at:  Tawas Area Chamber, Freel's Market, Sav-Mor Super Drugs,

Breakfast Benefit, East Tawas, Feb. 3rd - at the Whitetail Cafe, in downtown East Tawas from 7AM - 10AM. with half of the dinner proceeds will be donated to Relay for Life of Iosco County.  Live remote with Kevin Allen from WKJC-FM 104.7 .

Soup & Salad Luncheon, East Tawas, Feb. 4th - at Grace Lutheran Church from 11AM - 3PM. Come warm up during Perchville and enjoy some delicious food and a bake sale. Donations gladly accepted.

My Fatal Valentine, West Branch, Feb. 2nd, 3rd, 4th - Ogemaw Heights Theatrical Troupe presents a murder mystery dinner show at the Forward Quality Inn Conference Center in West Branch. Cost is $30 per person, includes three course dinner, beverage & gratuity. Tickets available in advance at Edith M's and the Ogemaw High School office.

Battle on the Bay, Standish, Feb. 10th - 13th - Battle on the Bay is a snowmobile racing event where snowmobiles ice drag race at the Eagle Bay Marina on the ice. Teams will be coming from places like Quebec, Vermont and North Dakota. Tickets for the event are $5 with another $5 to gain access to the racers' area.  People interested in joining the event can register at the MSDRA website, www.msdra.net

Dinner and Dance Kick-Off Party, Tawas City, Feb. 18th - benefit for Relay for Life of Iosco County at the Tawas United Methodist Church Family Life Center. Doors open at 5:30PM and dinner at 6PM Entertainment by The Music Man (Mike McCarley) Donations will be gladly accepted. For reservations, please call by February 1 at 989-362-3285. Seating is limited. 

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Michigan Presidential Primary is February 28th.  Visit MISOS to learn more.

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The WIOS App for mobile OS!

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and really enjoy listening to you all day now too.  Please don't ever change!

Arthur & Marlene R. - Tawas City, MI

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songs that bring back a ton of memories, as well as a great selection of
offerings that I never paid attention to before, but they sound
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Beatty L. - St. Louis, MO

In the years 1959 - 1961 ...WIOS...was the best thing I recall about school at that time. Glad to see it is still there and will be listening to it this summer when we have our 50th reunion.

George B. - MI

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Radio is the Place You Discover New Music!

(We already knew that!)

Terrestrial radio is still the clear, top choice for music discovery.  According to a new survey conducted for the National Association of Recording Merchandisers, it shows that six out of ten (60%) musically-active consumers say broadcast radio is their top influence.  Listeners are telling us at they discover "new" songs all the time.  Thanks for making us your #1 choice!

Arbitron™ data shows that radio reaches 93% of the population each week over the age of 12!

Triton Digital™, a radio industry leader in online radio streaming, shows in their latest data that internet radio listening is up 20% for the year 2011!  We've noticed, too, on our media encoder server that you're listening to online more than ever!  Thanks for your ear!

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Great News!

Android Phone Users can tune into WIOS!

Click on the Android or Mobile Link at the top right of the webpage!

Download the TuneIn Radio App (the industry's most popular online streaming app!) for Android phones and listen anywhere there's a network connection!  Note: When using TuneIn Radio in the Car Mode, ask the Voice Search to "Listen to Adult Standards" in order to find WIOS.  There are other references to WIOS in the app that are not us, and asking for "The Bay's Best" will bring up some other funky music station.  So asking for "adult Standards" will take you directly to WIOS 1480 AM!

(iPhone users will not be able to use the TuneIn app on WIOS since the original encoder stream is a Microsoft-based WME stream.  However, the majority of smartphone users are Android OS and this open-license platform is completely compatible with WME streaming)

Also:

Wi-Fi Radio Users can now program their internet radios for WIOS! 

(Just in case the Reciva.com database doesn't populate your Wi-Fi radio set) **

Manually enter: http://www.wiosradio.com/ WIOSListen.wvx  (Windows Media Encoder Stream) into the "Tune In URL" setup of the receiver through your computer software and then listen to WIOS anywhere there is a wired or wireless internet connection!*

*Most Wi-Fi radio sets are portable AND behave like tabletop units as well.  They work wherever there is a public, wireless Wi-Fi connection or can be connected with an ethernet cable into a router, switch or hub.  You'll receive a static-free, buzz-free audio signal in total high fidelity on a Wi-Fi radio set, just like you do on your PC!  (A high-speed internet connection is needed to minimize buffering.  A 1Mbps minimum download connection is recommended.  256kbps is probably the absolute slowest connection to listen to most online radio stations, though page loading in a browser will be extremely slowed)

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Troubleshooting ™:  AT&T Uverse™ users may not be able to listen to WIOS Windows Media™ stream with the Motorola™ 2210-02-1ATT modem due to un-configurable port blocking.  There is NO work-around for this modem.  Uverse™ users using a 2Wire 2701HGV-B for their HSI ADSL2/2+ service can use the internal routing settings to permit passthrough for port 1755 to listen to the WIOS Windows Media stream.  If a Motorola™ Netopia™ modem came with your Uverse™ setup, configure it like the 2701HGV-B to allow port 1755 passthrough.  AT&T™ standard DSL users, Radio Wireless and Cable ISP systems should work normally with no DMZ or port passthrough needed in the router/modem.  Please consult your ISP if you are have problems listening to WIOS online.  Symantec™ End Point Protection users must disable "Enable Stealth Web Browsing" under "Network Threat Protection" to listen to Windows Media streaming.  Windows Media Player™ polls the encoder at the server for the the bit rate and version number, and SEP does not permit the polling to occur if "Stealth Browsing" is enabled.  This is a known issue with SEP and no work-around is available except to "turn off" the stealth browsing mode.  "Stealth Web Browsing" may be featured in other anti-virus software including Symantec™ products like Norton Anti-Virus™.  Users are advised to check their anti-virus settings that may block Windows Media™ streams.  This affects all Windows Media™ streams.  If Windows Media Player™ experiences garbled reception make sure that "download codecs automatically" is selected under Tools/Options/Player tab, choose "Once a Day", "Once a Week", or "Once a Month", depending on your preference.  Other times when WIOS cannot be heard may be due to unavailable network resources, ISP failure, or Windows Media Encoder™ may have crashed on our end due to overload of the server by exceeding 99 users.  If you are still having difficulty receiving the WIOS stream after following these troubleshooting steps, feel free to contact Carroll Broadcasting at 989-362-3417 to let us know you are having reception problems so we may make certain the streaming broadcast is being sent from our studio.  We can only give limited advice regarding your computer or Wi-Fi radio set, we do not provide support for the Microsoft™ streaming client, we only support the server (broadcast) end of the stream but we will be happy to help whenever we can.  If you are still having problems, feel free to contact your nearest computer expert for assistance. 

Streaming Technical:  WIOS uses WME9 on port 1755 and Windows Media™ proprietary AAC codec with a 40Kbps bit rate for the stream.  Users will see a bit rate of up to 40Kbps at 32kHz (FM quality) in Windows Media Player.  Android phone users will see bit rates between 30Kbps-40Kbps when using the TuneIn Radio app for Android.  We have ceased providing multicasts in different bit rates to prevent router congestion and streaming lock-ups on our end.  The audio stream is broadcast in dual mono direct from our AM modulation monitor, you are hearing the same signal that is being broadcast over the air (audio processing included).  If you have an exceptionally good AM receiver with full 10kHz IF bandwidth, you will experience a hi-fidelity frequency response closely approximating that of the streaming service.  WIOS's music is digitally "cleaned" and equalized to provide removal of most analog noise, clicks and pops along with crisper highs and deeper lows on older recordings where that range had been previously restricted.

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