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I was sent this picture on Facebook recently, and I found it extremely ironic that this picture not only is awesomely old. It does also feature our Program Directors name! Which lead me to believe that he has been secretly working here for decades.

Hey guys, it's Metalhead Ned. Lots of awesome stuff is always happening at 97.9, 'GRD Rocks! When I first started at WGRD as a DJ, I rocked so damn early in the morning on Sunday that most people didn't even knew I existed. I chatted about metal music,video games, concerts, people who do stupid stuff and more. Then, I took over weeknights from 7 p.m. to midnight. I am beat! I'm gonna head back to

Full Metal Jackie is adding weeknights to her air time on 97.9 WGRD starting next week. On Monday night, "Loudwire Nights with Full Metal Jackie" is being launched as a nationally-syndicated radio show.

Check out the 40 songs in WGRD‘s rotation for the month of November

Each Thursday on "The Free Beer & Hot Wings Morning Show," we play Dumber Than Zane Trivia with Eric Zane for a $500 cash prize. Because of some instances of cheating in the past, we now require that all of our contestants be blindfolded and use GoToMeeting so we can watch them play and ensure that they are not cheating. Today's contestant was Brian in Grand Rapids.

For the 12th consecutive year, we've tried to do our part to help out families in need this holiday season. "The Free Beer & Hot Wings Morning Show" and WGRD ask for nominations from people who know someone that could use a little help around the holidays. ...

For the 12th consecutive year, we've tried to do our part to help out families in need this holiday season. "The Free Beer & Hot Wings Morning Show" and WGRD ask for nominations from people who know someone that could use a little help around the holidays. ...

Hometown boys Wayland came to town a couple weeks ago and brought it to The Intersection! If you were there, you saw some awesome stuff go down. If you weren't, well, here is a gallery of pics from the show!

The 2nd annual WGRD Pond Hockey Classic took place over the weekend at Reeds Lake.  Tons of teams and tons of fans came out for the weekend to drink beers, play hockey, drink beers, watch hockey, and drink beers.  After the jump check out a gallery of photos from the event.

I am already addicted to Lord of the Rings Online, so I really don't need another game to occupy my time. Well a fellow coworker is all about League of Legends and so I was like, oh what the hell, and down loaded it. I am an ADDICT! No joke I play all the time, I even brought my laptop to work and played while I was sitting here at the studio...

I love 80's rock, which means I am super pumped that Motley Crue is going to be taking the stage at Van Andel Arena next Wednesday, August 3rd! I decided in honor of the rock gods I would do a bit of rocking myself... So I got with one of my AlternaChick, gal pals and organized a rock themed photo shoot...

97.9 GRD and Rock The Rapids present the Ultimate Rock Star Treatment! One lucky fan will score the V.I.P. jackpot during Rock the Rapids, August 8-13 in downtown Grand Rapids!