West Michigan Wakeup December 1, 2025

Episode Transcript

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The news you need to start your day. It's the
West Michigan Wake Up powered by Minards on Star one
oh five point seven. Well, we'll start with three more
counties in West Michigan bracing for another round of snow.
After most of most of us si anywhere between eight
and twelve inches over the weekend. A new winter storm
watch has been issued starting tonight and includes Ottawa, Muskegon

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and Oceana County. Lake effect snow off Lake Michigan expected
to deliver at least six more inches, with a foot
possible by Tuesday morning in these areas. Now, that will
be a very quiet afternoon today before that is likely
to move in this evening. However, it will stay cold
for all of us in the week ahead, with more

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snow chances expected throughout West Michigan in time for the weekend. Well,
we had Black Friday, we had Small Business Saturday, and
now it is the chaos of Cyber Monday. If you
are more so an online shopper this season, today is
the day more than eighty eight stores running worth wild
deals everything from some of Oprah's favorites to big celebrities

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like Rece Witherspoon, offering massive discounts on her lifestyle brands.
We're going to see deals from Nordstrom, Kate's, Spade Outlet,
jig Crew, and more. And right now it is a
great time for tech if you're looking at air pods
or perhaps any kind of travel accessories. Experts say cleaning
items like Dyson and more all going to be massively,

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massively marked down today as millions are expected to be
spent today. Loon taking a look at sports. The big
news coach Jonathan Smith of Michigan State's football team is
out UNSU, making the official announcement yesterday, saying the twenty
twenty five football season has not lived up to our
shared standards for Michigan State football. While that does not

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fall solely on Jonathan Smith, it's become necessary to make
a coaching change in order to chart a new direction.
This comes out after just two seasons. Defensive coordinator Joe
Rossi will be the interim head coach for MSU once
a new coach is named, and according to rumor, that
person will be former Northwestern coach Pat Fitzgerald, who last

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coached in the summer of twenty twenty three, but does
bring decades of experience Ohio State earning the top spot
in the Big Ten title game. Yes, taking down Michigan,
actually absolutely destroying Michigan. Unfortunately, our Wolverines did not have
a very fun time watching that loss twenty seven to nine.

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But let's move to West Michigan, where we have ranked
our champ. Well done to the West Catholic football team
winning the Division five title game for the first time
since winning five straight from their thirteen to seventeen season.
Unbelievable forty two to fourteen win against pontiatt Notre Dame
Prep at Ford Field. Pretty big stuff. Falcons here we go,

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and finally, tonight Pistons back in action against Atlanta. You
can hear that on Tactot thirty WTKG for the latest news,
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