History of WSDC & WDSL RADIO
Early years of WSDC/WDSL Radio
In accordance to the Federal Communications Commission in Washington D.C., in1962, a radio station covering the area of Mocksville, NC was formed. It was a 250-watt radio station with 10 investors to start the station. The station was called WSDC. The call letters stood for Winston-Salem,Salisbury,and Davie Counties. He station was situated at 1011 Hardison Street in Mocksville in less n two years, the station went defunct and closed down.
In 1964, Mr. Roland Potter authorized a 5, 000 watt station called WDSL 1520 AM “The Voice Of Davie County which is still used today. It is still in existence today and coming up on its 48th year. In 1964, they bought both an am and fm stations which he up ending never using and lost the rights to the FM.
The call letters of WDSL means “ We Daily Serve Listeners”. The station was
located at 1011 Hardison Street in Mocksville. Mr. Potter thought that he owned the station outright but was surprised to find that the power lines was really property of Duke Power. However, Duke Power never did use the lines for anything so, WDSL Radio used the station freely for many years.
The station is now located at ,431 Eaton Rd Mocksville.
Programming of station over the years
In sports, we broadcast Davie high football live over the air and we now stream it live on our website.
The obituaries have been broadcasted for many years. Eaton Funeral Service is the sponsored
Community Announcements are done twice a day in the"BIG Hits" morning show as a public service of WDSL Radio.
Here are the names of folks that worked at WDSL Radio:
Frank Andrews (First Manager); Chuck Bridgman (First DJ); Carol Forest (First Secretary); Bill Crissman, DJ/Engineer: Jack "Smiley"Scott.DJ/Engineer; Darrell "Smitty"Smith, DJ; Jonathan Seamon.DJ; Gene Johnson, DJ; John Johnson, DJ; John Butero (alias Johnny Roberts), (First Operations and News Director); George Frye Jr. (DJ/Operations Director); Betty Bean, (Secretary); Lou Ann Seamon (Secretary); Johnny Butero (alias Johnny B) DJ; Mike Butero (DJ);
Mike Williams (DJ); Shirley Williams (DJ); Andy McIntyre (DJ), Alice Smith (DJ); Otis Snow (Play by Play); Marion Pitts (Play by Play); Ron Wishon (DJ); Morris Jeffries (DJ); David Garwood (Sales); Bill Connell (DJ/Play by Play); Steve Boger (DJ); Betty Long (Secretary); Al Spainhour (Sales); Norm Carlton (DJ/Sales). Jonathan Wishon (DJ/Promotions). Sam Melvin}(DJ); There were some others but I can’t remember all their names.
OWNERS OF WDSL Radio
Roland Potter; first owner- 1964-1990
Jeff &Ouida Watts; 2nd owner s1990-1996
John Tilley& Clay Lunsford; 3rd owners 1996-1998
Margret Tilley; 4th owners 1998-2000
Garry & Kay Tilley; 5th owners 2000-2006
Mark Sanger & Billy Buck Blevins; 6th owner s2006-2010
Farren K. Shoaf & Laura Jane; 7th owners 2010-now