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WSJS (600 AM) is a commercial radio station licensed to Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and broadcasting to the Greensboro/Winston-Salem/High Point media market. It airs a talk and sports radio format. WSJS is owned by the Truth Broadcasting Corporation, with studios and offices in The Factory Building on North Main Street in Kernersville.
Some of the programming was the same as that of WSJS. [3] WSJS-FM played classical and semi-classical music after the owners of WAAA purchased WYFS, [4] and offered an easy listening format until 1974 [citation needed]. On November 10, 1972, WSJS and WSJS-FM announced a move to a building built for IBM in 1961 after IBM moved out. [5]
It took its calls from Piedmont Publishing's WSJS radio (600 AM and 104.1 FM, now WTQR), [2] which in turn took them from the newspapers' initials. Johnny Beckman, an early employee, recalled working at WSJS-TV in those early years: There were three of us, and we all did multiple jobs—the weather, commercials, a teenage dance party.
CMG is the largest privately held broadcast company in North Carolina, and claims that WQDR-FM is the highest-billing radio station in the state. Don Curtis formed a company, Inner Banks Broadcasting, in partnership with eastern North Carolina broadcaster Henry Hinton, which in 2006 purchased WMFR from CBS Radio, and simulcasts talk WSJS and WSML.
WSJS radio begins broadcasting. [15] Shell-shaped Shell Service Station built. [16] 1935 – State Theatre active. [17] 1937 WAIR radio begins broadcasting. [15] Krispy Kreme donuts in business. [18] 1948 – Piedmont Airlines headquartered in city. [8] 1951 – Flamingo Drive-In cinema opens. [17] 1952 – Temple Emanuel synagogue built. [12]
Until 1947, WMIT studios were located with co-owned AM station WSJS in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. [5]WMIT was the first FM station in North Carolina, and among the earliest in the United States. [6]
20 October – Radio rights for the World Series in North American baseball sell for $475,000 for 3 years. 24 October – Francis Poulenc 's Sinfonietta receives its world premiere in a broadcast concert from London having been commissioned by the BBC for the first anniversary of their Third Programme .
WSJS began helping WMFR with its news coverage. [22] On February 14, 2007, WMFR (along with WSJS and WSML) was sold by CBS Radio (formerly Infinity) to Raleigh-based Curtis Media Group. The move partnered WSJS with FM news/talk station WZTK, which covers both the Triad and Triangle (as well as southern Virginia and as far south as Fayetteville).