{"id":282468,"date":"2025-11-10T03:04:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T03:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/282468\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T03:04:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T03:04:11","slug":"more-on-townsquares-michigan-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/282468\/","title":{"rendered":"More On Townsquare&#8217;s Michigan Changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-od-removed-loading=\"lazy\" data-od-replaced- data-od-xpath=\"\/HTML\/BODY\/DIV[@class='jeg_viewport']\/*[5][self::DIV]\/*[1][self::DIV]\/*[1][self::DIV]\/*[1][self::DIV]\/*[1][self::DIV]\/*[1][self::DIV]\/*[5][self::DIV]\/*[1][self::DIV]\/*[1][self::DIV]\/*[1][self::DIV]\/*[2][self::DIV]\/*[1][self::DIV]\/*[2][self::DIV]\/*[1][self::P]\/*[1][self::IMG]\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/theticker1240-200x200.jpg\" alt=\"The Ticket 1240 106.9 WJIM Lansing\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-318187\"  \/>As Townsquare Media prepares to flip four of its stations in Michigan to simulcasts of Audacy\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.audacy.com\/971theticket\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">97.1 The Ticket<\/a>\u201d WXYT-FM Detroit,  we know more about their plans for branding and how it will affect a change at another station within the company.<\/p>\n<p>95.3 WBCK Battle Creek, 1360 WKMI Kalamazoo, and 1240 WJIM\/106.9 W295BP Lansing will each tak on the \u201cTicket\u201d branding like WXYT-FM. As Cumulus Media already claims the brand in Grand Rapids on \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theticketmi.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">1340 The Ticket<\/a>\u201d WJRW\/106.1 W291DJ, when WFGR flips it will be just \u201cSports Radio 98.7\u201c.<\/p>\n<p>In Lansing, some of the Talk programming moving off of WJIM will relocate to what is now \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/thegame730am.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">730 The Game<\/a>\u201d WVFN will become \u201cLansing 730\u201d with a mix of Talk and Sports.<\/p>\n<p>WJIM morning host Steve Gruber will move to WVFN, while its 9am-12pm show \u201cMichigan\u2019s Big Show\u201d hosted by Michael Patrick Shiels will move to afternoons from 3-6pm. \u201cStaudt on Sports\u201d hosted by Tim Staudt will move up an hour to 9am to 12pm. Current WVFN morning host Matt Sheppard will move to 12-3pm. The 6-9pm hour will be announced at a later date with the statewide syndicated \u201cThe Huge Show\u201d hosted by Bill Simonson will move from afternoons to 9pm-12am. Syndicated talkers Dave Ramsey and Red Eye Radio will run in overnights replacing ESPN Radio. WVFN will also continue to serve as the home of Michigan State University Sports play-by-play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As Townsquare Media prepares to flip four of its stations in Michigan to simulcasts of Audacy\u2019s \u201c97.1 The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282469,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[88,216],"class_list":{"0":"post-282468","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}