A brisk finals match where local pride and quick recall do the talking.
WSJM's Academic Challenge Championship makes a school quiz meet feel like a real local event, with St. Joe and Our Lady of the Lake trading points in a finals match.

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Southwest Michigan, hour by hour.
News/Talk/Sports 94.9 WSJM keeps close tabs on Benton Harbor, St. Joseph, Berrien County, and nearby communities. Its feed mixes newsroom briefings, high school competitions, local sports talk, education segments, theater previews, weather, and practical updates.
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News/Talk/Sports 94.9 WSJM is a working local-radio feed for Southwest Michigan. It is not built around one polished narrative lane. It carries the mix that a community station actually handles: morning news, afternoon updates, sports reports, school competitions, education explainers, theater previews, health-adjacent lifestyle bits, weather, and sponsor-framed live segments. Benton Harbor and St. Joseph come up often. So do Berrien County, South Haven, Dowagiac, Michigan policy, and regional sports. The news episodes are practical and specific, tracking items like city borrowing, ambulance fees, juvenile center costs, parking discussions, drainage spending, flooding extensions, and candidate visits. The sports pieces move quickly through Tigers games, NBA awards, college football proposals, high school schedules, and coach interviews. Community segments slow down just enough to let guests explain what is happening. A Berrien RESA conversation on dyslexia, for example, turns literacy law requirements into language parents and educators can follow. A Beckwith Theatre interview treats an Agatha Christie production as both a calendar item and a snapshot of a local arts group at work. Academic Challenge adds a different texture, with area high school teams competing through current events, sports, politics, space travel, and literature. The tone is familiar and unfussy. Breaks, handoffs, repetitions, and quick corrections remain part of the experience. That live-room texture is the point. WSJM’s value is proximity: it stays close to the meeting room, the school gym, the theater stage, the ballfield, and the morning commute.
Made for: For listeners who want Southwest Michigan news, local sports, school updates, civic meetings, and community events without a national-news filter. It especially fits people who live around Benton Harbor, St. Joseph, Berrien County, or nearby towns.
What sets it apart: Its strength is density of local detail: officials, school teams, meeting costs, event times, and regional context all sit in the same feed. Few comparable shows move this naturally between city finance, high school athletics, education policy, and local arts.
Depend On Us. Featuring local news, weather, sports, and community voices on The Morning Show with Ken & Friends weekday mornings from 6-9am. Find local stories, state news, sports, video and more at wsjm.com and the WSJM Mobile app!
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
WSJM makes Southwest Michigan civic life legible through practical interviews, community voices, school events and closely observed local concerns.
News/Talk/Sports 94.9 WSJM turns Southwest Michigan public life into conversational radio, moving among civic interviews, community projects, school competitions and local sports. Ken Lundberg's exchange with St.
City hall meets the pottery wheel, then your neighborhood's coaches and quiz teams grab the microphone.
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A brisk finals match where local pride and quick recall do the talking.
WSJM's Academic Challenge Championship makes a school quiz meet feel like a real local event, with St. Joe and Our Lady of the Lake trading points in a finals match.
Local coaches break down baseball mechanics, pole vault help, and the work behind the results.
This local sports radio segment has a practical, down-to-earth feel. Coaches talk plainly about baseball mechanics, holding runners, work behind the plate, and the steady grind of tee and soft-toss hitting.
A live-stream wobble gives way to a plainspoken morning conversation about local business priorities and a chamber event.
A live-stream hiccup opens the segment, then the conversation settles into a Friday-morning chat with Arthur Havlicek, the president and CEO of the Southwest Michigan Regional Chamber of Commerce.
A local morning-radio update on St. Joe’s summer season, with lighthouse tours at the center.
The WSJM morning segment gives a clear, local update on how St. Joe Today is shaping the city’s summer season, with Paul Knapp laying out lighthouse tours, upcoming events, and the organization’s role as a champion of the city. The lighthouse tours at the St.
A local sports hour that treats coaching as community work.
This Coaches Show opens with a Saturday broadcast from Signature Toyota in Benton Harbor, Fred Smith filling in for Phil McConnell, and a longtime Lakeshore soccer coach with 28 varsity seasons behind him.
A loose, local morning hour that turns political absurdity into easy radio.
The hour starts in familiar local-radio terrain, with golf-season banter, cigar tips, and weather checks, then drifts into a political-news tangent about Hunter Biden, Donald Trump Jr., Eric Trump, and the cage-match joke that lends the segment a strange live-wire charge.
A grounded local profile that feels useful, human, and firmly tied to place.
WSJM's morning show turns a local business update into a compact portrait of Amelia Briski, the Southwest Michigan entrepreneur behind Blue Dress Barn, Sundance, Mill Creek Wild, and Verde Pottery in Millburg.
A straightforward city update that makes the Main Street work feel immediate and local.
Ken Lundberg's conversation with Mayor Brooke Thomas on the WSJM Morning Show stays close to the ground: the wedding he officiated comes up, then the talk moves to parking, detours, business disruption, and the Main Street work set for 2027.






Fargo morning-drive radio with Bo and Megan, NDSU Bison football previews, and listener call-in games.
WSJM's Academic Challenge Championship match features St.
The Coaches opens on WSJM with sponsor reads and relaxed studio banter.
An interview with literacy consultants discussing dyslexia, its definition, and how to support learners with reading difficulties.
This episode covers Benton Harbor's meeting with Medic One to discuss rising ambulance service costs and the ongoing search for a new Berrien County administrator.
Benton Harbor is seeking a $1 million loan secured by state revenue-sharing payments to address financial instability and avoid potential inability to pay bills or payroll.
The morning starts a little sideways.
This episode covers recent sports news including the Detroit Tigers' comeback win over the Royals, NBA play-in tournament matchups, Cade Cunningham's award eligibility, and proposed changes to the college football season.
This episode discusses the Gen Z trend of Nona-maxing, which promotes slowing down and living like an Italian grandma for better health and longevity, along with the benefits of morning walks.
A morning show host interviews the director and committee members about an upcoming Agatha Christie play at a local community theater.
A local morning show host interviews a United Way representative about an upcoming Whirlpool appliance sale fundraiser.
Paul Knapp says St.
A local morning show host interviews a chamber of commerce representative about upcoming community events, including the new SIP Buchanan festival.
A hearing health expert discusses the dangers of untreated hearing loss and its impact on relationships and social isolation.
A local news segment covering a sewer lawsuit settlement and a housing needs assessment in Berrien County, Michigan.
This episode features an interview with the newly crowned Miss Blossom Time 2026 and her court, discussing their recent win and busy schedules.
A local news/talk radio show covering community stories, weather, sports, and featuring quirky segments like snake yoga and home remedy warnings.
A local news segment covering a 911 dispatcher award and the search for a new county administrator.
A local morning talk show host interviews Rotary and hospital representatives about an upcoming community event.
Local news report on a new urgent care facility in South Haven Township and Governor Whitmer's groundbreaking event in Kalamazoo.
A local news report on a housing needs assessment revealing a shortage of attainable housing in Berrien County.
A local news segment reports on a new urgent care facility planned for South Haven Township, highlighting community benefits.
Fred Smith is in the chair.
News/Talk/Sports 94.9 WSJM's 'Weekend Planner with St.
Friday opens with bookkeeping, then wanders straight into golf.
Local news coverage of St.
Local news report on Benton Harbor city commissioners debating a new millage for ambulance services and St.
Benton Harbor city commissioners resist a proposed millage increase to cover rising ambulance service costs from Medic 1.
A local news radio show covering a drug bust in Benton Harbor and the resignation of Lincoln Township Manager Casey Dominguez.
April 9th comes fast.
It's April 8th, 2026.
A local news broadcast covering a Benton Harbor city commission vote for a forensic audit over credit card issues and a Michigan Supreme Court case on city liability for a drowning death.
A local news radio segment covering Amtrak service suspension due to flooding and a community art event.
This episode reports on the arrest of a man in Coloma Township following an Amber Alert for a missing 12-year-old girl from Iowa, and briefly mentions another missing teen in Allegan County.
A morning sports talk show segment featuring an interview with a veteran volleyball official about high school officiating.
A local news broadcast covering the Michigan connection to Artemis II, a lunar rover project at Andrews University, and a farming roundtable in southwest Michigan.