John is a graduate of Northern Vance High School & UNC-Chapel Hill with a Bachelor of Arts in Broadcast Journalism. He has been a radio personality since 1989.
John is the Marketing Consultant, News, Sports, & Town Talk Broadcaster, Technician, & Treasurer for WIZS Radio.
He is the current On-site Radio Engineer for Duke Basketball and Football and has been their scoreboard announcer in the past as well.
Beautiful snow … thick, wet, heavy snow fell in Henderson Thursday night. About three inches fell, and while there were not heavy impacts to travel, a lot of daily activities were disrupted on Friday. The snow, it seems nearly every flake, stuck to trees and lines. The glistening snow is visible, from our cover photo, […]
Snow…Winter Weather Advisory
Check out the series of videos, and see how you feel… Thank you for watching. This IS Henderson-Vance County!
TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 7 PM — FEB 6, 2020
It’s not easy to bring people together. To bind them together is still more difficult. It takes energy, and sometimes it takes a “new generation of business leadership.” That’s the phrase used to describe Tyler Brewer at Thursday night’s Henderson-Vance Chamber of Commerce Meeting and Banquet. Brewer is the incoming, 2020 Chamber Board Chair. The […]
100.1 FM / 1450 AM WIZS; Local News broadcasts M-F 8am, 12pm, 5pm The Oxford Police Department worked two incidents where three people were shot on January 11 and January 12. In addition, arrests have been made in a homicide case from December 31, 2019, and in the aftermath of an altercation on December 9, […]
100.1 FM / 1450 AM WIZS; Local News broadcasts M-F 8am, 12pm, 5pm The Vance County Board of Commissioners met Monday evening, and Chairman Gordon Wilder and the full board administered two public hearings. The first was a pre-budget public hearing in which suggestions and priorities could be voiced by residents. The only people who […]
100.1 FM / 1450 AM WIZS; Local News broadcasts M-F 8am, 12pm, 5pm Vance County Sheriff Curtis Brame is again reminding citizens to be aware of fraud, particularly gift card fraud. Not only that, but someone, according to the Sheriff, is impersonating Brame and other deputies with a phone scam. There has even been at […]
Vance County Sheriff Curtis Brame’s Shopping Safety Tips Open Enrollment Medicare / Affordable Care Act Deadlines Travel Safety
No matter the time of day or the time of year, you can always find the latest briefing from the National Weather Service in Raleigh by following this link (https://www.weather.gov/media/rah/briefing/NWSRaleighLatestBriefing.pdf). The possibility of severe weather definitely exists for much of the rest of the day. That said, the latest briefing in the link above, as […]
