Sunday, July 01, 2007
By Greg Chandler
The Grand Rapids Press
HOLLAND -- Joe Stokes had been out of radio for six years when he received a phone call one night from David Roper, a co-worker at the former WEVS-FM.
Roper asked if the two former air personalities could get together to discuss an idea he had.
"He came over and said, 'I have an idea and wanted to get your input,'" said Stokes, who was a nighttime air personality at the former oldies station from 1990 to 2001.
Roper proposed creating an Internet radio station with virtually the same format as WEVS, a Saugatuck-based station on air at 92.7 FM from 1987 until 2001, when owner Chris Conrad sold the station to Midwest Communications of Wausau, Wis.
The station's format was later changed to classic rock and its call letters became WYVN ("The Van.")
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By Greg Chandler
The Grand Rapids Press
HOLLAND -- Joe Stokes had been out of radio for six years when he received a phone call one night from David Roper, a co-worker at the former WEVS-FM.
Roper asked if the two former air personalities could get together to discuss an idea he had.
"He came over and said, 'I have an idea and wanted to get your input,'" said Stokes, who was a nighttime air personality at the former oldies station from 1990 to 2001.
Roper proposed creating an Internet radio station with virtually the same format as WEVS, a Saugatuck-based station on air at 92.7 FM from 1987 until 2001, when owner Chris Conrad sold the station to Midwest Communications of Wausau, Wis.
The station's format was later changed to classic rock and its call letters became WYVN ("The Van.")
http://www.mlive.com/news/grpress/index.ssf?/base/news-8/1183270641106420.xml&coll=6