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.
McGregor Hall is unique. It’s large. It’s privately funded. It’s well positioned to promote economic prosperity and cultural diversity. It’s something that not every community has. And today on its very stage, a group interested in the 1,000 seat performance and learning center met to learn more about how to cultivate the vision that started […]
Recorded Live at 11 a.m. on 9-12-18 for presentation here at this time. Update on local impacts from Hurricane Florence. This is an audio file only, and can be found also on our Facebook and Twitter Pages.
Tuesday night at 6:00, the Henderson Optimist Club met at the Henderson Country Club and held it’s annual Respect for Law program. Henderson Police Captain Tony Pendergrass presented the Officer of the Year award to Sgt. Graham Woodlief. Pendergrass said, “Since January of 2018, through numerous arrest and search warrants, Sgt. Woodlief has seized $28,961 […]
Written and provided by Jean Bell, Parenting Education Coordinator, Vance County Cooperative Extension You can hear Jean Bell, Wayne Rowland and Paul McKenzie each M-Th on WIZS at 2:05 p.m. The following script will air Thursday, June 7, 2018. Summer Learning Kids work hard during the school year and look forward to summer break. Kids […]
Shown in the cover photo is Dennis Jarvis, II. He is the director of the Henderson-Vance County Economic Development Commission. In an email to the Henderson-Vance Chamber of Commerce, which was subsequently forwarded to WIZS News, Jarvis explained that The Economic Development Partnership of North Carolina (EDPNC) is hosting an event for NC manufacturers to […]
The Vance County budget for 2018-2019 was adopted unanimously at Monday night’s Vance County Board of Commissioners meeting. When all the funds are added up, the budget equals $56,131,498. “The budget does not include any increase in the general fund tax rate (remains 89 cents per $100 value) and does not include any increase in […]
The Warren County Commissioners will meet tonight at 6:00 (June 4, 2018). The meeting will take place in the Armory Civic Center Meeting Room located at 501 US Hwy 158 Business East in Warrenton. A group of citizens in Warren County has reached out to WIZS News and asked that this meeting time and location […]
The Relay for Life of Vance County is just a little more than a month away, and fundraising, team formation and finalized logistics are just a few of the things being cared for by your local Vance County relay committee and planners. Tomorrow (Saturday, May 19th), there is a Vance County Relay for Life Auction. […]
The Awahili District, Occoneechee Council of the Boy Scouts of America honored longtime local public servant James (Jim) W. Crawford, Jr. Thursday night and named him the 2018 George Rose Watkins, Sr. Citizen of the Year. For the fifth time in as many years, a dinner was held at the Henderson Country Club, with Crawford […]
