In 1942 he joined radio station WJR in Detroit where he broadcast the games of the Michigan Wolverines, while commuting back to Cleveland on Sundays to do the Rams' games.
After retiring from coaching, Thornbladh became the color commentator on WJR radio broadcasts of Michigan Wolverines football games.
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He later served as the color commentator for Michigan football broadcasts on WJR radio.
Lucci also appeared as himself in the 1968 film Paper Lion, and from 1976-78 served as color commentator for Lions broadcasts on WJR radio.
The following year, he moved to Detroit to work for WJR Radio to call games for the NBA Detroit Pistons (1980–1981), and then to WWJ Radio in to call football and basketball for the University of Michigan from 1981–1987.
His tenure with the Mariners was only interrupted by a two-year stint from 1992 to 1994 providing game coverage of the Detroit Tigers, teaming with Bob Rathbun on WJR.
It is currently programmed with a gospel music format and has a power of 1,000 watts; operation is limited to daytime hours to prevent interference to WJR, Detroit, Michigan.
Because it shares the same frequency with WJR in Detroit, Michigan, WETR operates during the daytime hours only.
German-American musicologist Karl Haas, whose knowledge of every facet of music was encyclopedic, started Adventures in Good Music in 1959 on radio station WJR in Detroit, Michigan.
Millgrove an inside cylinder 0-6-0ST built in 1919 by Peckett and Sons for the C&WJR.
By the 1950s, and continuing through the mid-1970s, many of the most powerful North American "clear channel" stations such as KDKA, WLW, CKLW, CHUM, WABC, WJR, WLS, WKBW, KFI, KAAY, KSL and a host of border blasters from Mexico pumped out Top 40 music played by popular disc jockeys.
The EP features various rough demos of songs that would later be featured on their first full-length album, Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum, as well as two live tracks recorded at The Blind Pig in Ann Arbor, Michigan (one of which was merely a banter track), and one recorded live on the Mitch Albom Show on WJR Radio in Detroit, Michigan.
After the 2010 floods in Pakistan, WJR worked with partners to provide immediate needs to displaced communities in Bagh District and restore homes that had been damaged or destroyed.