WSJS
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For the television station formerly known as WSJS, see WXII.
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| City of license | Winston-Salem, North Carolina |
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| Broadcast area | Piedmont Triad |
| Branding | News/Talk 600/1200 WSJS |
| Frequency | 600 (kHz) |
| First air date | April 18, 1930 (Good Friday) |
| Format | Talk radio |
| Power | 5,000 watts |
| Class | B |
| Callsign meaning | Winston-Salem Journal Sentinel (named for the city's two daily papers, the Winston-Salem Journal and the Twin City Sentinel |
| Owner | Curtis Media Group |
| Website | www.wsjs.com |
WSJS is a radio station based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina that broadcasts at 600 AM (and broadcasts programming at WSML 1200 AM). It has a news/talk radio format and its slogan is "News/Talk for the Triad", where "Triad" refers to the Piedmont Triad.
[edit] History
WSJS signed on the air on April 17, 1935. The first official program broadcast was live coverage of the Easter Sunrise Service from God's Acre in Old Salem. That broadcast has continued every year since, and is believed to the be longest continuously aired special program in radio history.
WSJS was originally owned by the local newspapers (The Winston-Salem Journal Sentinel) and the original studios were in the newspaper newsroom in downtown Winston-Salem. The transmitter was in that building also and the antenna was a long wire suspended from two towers (one on the Journal Building and the other on the roof of the Carolina Theater building.
The station was co-located with WSJS TV for a number of years. Radio and TV were sold when the FCC decided newspapers shouldn't own broadcast facilities. The stations were operated by Summit Cable until the FCC said cable operators should not own TV stations. The television facility was sold and it became WXII. WSJS moved to its present location at 5th and Summit.
WSJS radio (and sister station WTQR) were sold to New Market Communications in the late 1980s, then to Fairfield Communications in 1994, and to Clear Channel in 1997. When Clear Channel merged with AM/FM, WSJS AM was sold to CBS (then called Infinity) in 2001, CBS sold the station to Curtis Media Group in 2007.
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On February 14, 2007, WSJS (along with its sister station WMFR and simulcast partner WSML) was sold from CBS to Raleigh-based Curtis Media Group (curtismedia.com). This move marries 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).
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