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WWCD President Randy Malloy, at CD 92.9's Big Room Bar stage at 1036 S. Front St. during the progressive rock station's last day on the airwaves on Jan. 31, 2024. The station switched to online-only streaming to make way for 93X, but the online streaming ended Sunday night.
WWCD President Randy Malloy, at CD 92.9's Big Room Bar stage at 1036 S. Front St. during the progressive rock station's last day on the airwaves on Jan. 31, 2024. The station switched to online-only streaming to make way for 93X, but the online streaming ended Sunday night.

What happened to Columbus' WWCD radio station?

After 34 years, Columbus alternative rock radio station WWCD ended their broadcast April 28. The station left the airwaves and online-only streaming that it turned to in February after WWCD president Randy Malloy could not reach an agreement with the owners of the 92.9 frequency to keep the station broadcasting. That online livestream ended in April. The closure of the station was “not due to any one factor, but a number of reasons,” Malloy said in a prepared statement.

A Brood X cicada hangs onto a tree trunk on Tuesday, June 15, 2021 at Highbanks Metro Park in Lewis Center, Ohio.
A Brood X cicada hangs onto a tree trunk on Tuesday, June 15, 2021 at Highbanks Metro Park in Lewis Center, Ohio.

Are cicadas coming to Ohio in 2024?

Short answer: Not this year. Long answer: This year's broods, XIX and XIII will emerge in a combined 17 states across the Midwest and Southeast. These broods are expected to come out in mid-May and stick around until late June, when the bugs reach the end of their life cycles. This year's broods are not in Ohio. The closest cicada zone to the state is in eastern Illinois.

Morning show radio personality at WSNY (94.7 FM) Dino Tripodis displays a children's book called "It's NOT the stork!" to longtime co-host Stacy McKay during an Aug. 20 broadcast of "Sunny This Morning with Stacy McKay and Dino Tripodis." Tripodis was at Sunny 95 for 24 years before he left in 2018 to pursue his own creative projects. He returned in July.

Where are Dino and Stacy on Sunny 95?

Longtime morning radio hosts Stacy McKay and Dino Tripodis have left Sunny 95 amid a round of apparent layoffs, according to social media posts and a RadioInsights article. McKay and Tripodis started hosting mornings on Sunny 95 in 1996. Tripodis left the station in 2018 to pursue his own creative projects before returning in 2021. McKay has been hosting mornings on the station continuously since 2010 when she returned from a brief stint at 104.9 The River, according to her LinkedIn Page.

Mar 12, 2024; Columbus, OH, United States; A cyclist travels south on High Street in the Short North area.
Mar 12, 2024; Columbus, OH, United States; A cyclist travels south on High Street in the Short North area.

What happened to MOUTON in the Short North?

MOUTON, a popular Short North cocktail bar, announced its permanent closure in an Instagram post in April. The bar's lease was not renewed to make way for a new development next door, according to the bar's Instagram post.

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