Triad Radio: WSJS To Drop N/T For Sports

 Starting Friday WSJS 600 AM, which in recent years had featured a mix of news/talk and sports — will switch to all sports programming, predominantly with syndicated programs but also some local and regional shows.

“So for the first time in 87 years, there will not be a live local morning show on WSJS,” morning host J.R. Snider told fans on his Facebook page Wednesday afternoon. “That’s more a sign of the changing media world than anything else, both for advertisers and for the listening audience.”

Snider and morning news anchor Ed Skurka will have their last broadcast on the station Thursday and the station will switch to its new format on Friday.

“Those guys are absolute pros,” said general manager Al Bunch. “I have the utmost respect for them both, and just wish them nothing but the best.”

Bunch said the decision to switch formats “was based on sports fans. They crave a place to talk about sports and listen to sports being discussed, and we feel that’s being underserved in the Triad. We’re going to give them what they’ve been asking for.”

In the mornings, WSJS will carry nationally syndicated sports programming until noon, when they will carry “David Glenn,” a regional show based out of Raleigh. That will be followed at 3 by the locally produced “One on One With The Schass,” with host Kyle Schassburger, which broadcasts out of WSJS’s Kernersville studio.

WSJS 600 AM (5 Kw, DA-2)

WSJS started as a collaboration between radio engineer and entrepreneur Douglas Lee and local newspaper publisher Owen Moon, taking its call letters from “Winston-Salem Journal/Sentinel,” since Moon published both the Journal and the Sentinel, the afternoon newspaper.

It first signed on April 17, 1930.