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.
— courtesy Orange County Speedway — by Jim Cribbs Orange County Speedway, Saturday, September 30 Annual Chad Pergerson and Kevin Bowen Memorial Race Twin 50-lap races for the Mike Bledsole Mechanical Heating and Air Late Model Stocks may have shaken up the points race for this year’s track championship a bit, as points leader, and […]
September is National Recovery Month, which celebrates people in long-term recovery and encourages individuals in need of treatment and recovery services to seek help. “It is estimated over 23 million Americans are addicted to alcohol and/or other drugs, and just as many American adults are living in recovery. For each person actively addicted, or recovering, […]
— Scouting Reports by Jeff Jenkins Vance County Friday Night Football is on 1450 AM WIZS live beginning at 6:45 p.m. Friday nights as well as live streamed on wizs.com. Kickoff is at 7 p.m. Please see our full schedule following the scouting reports. Southern Vance at South Granville Southern Vance finishes up a 3-week […]
— courtesy VGCC VGCC scholarship endowed by local funeral home A new Vance-Granville Community College scholarship has been endowed by J.M. White Funeral Home of Henderson in memory of its namesake and co-founder, Jerry Marshall White Sr. His widow and co-owner of the funeral home, Betty Oakes White, said that the family sought to create […]
Volunteer Services of Maria Parham Health will be hosting a $5 Masquerade Sale this week in the John T. Church classroom. The event takes place Wednesday, Sept. 27 (7am-4pm) and Thursday Sept. 28 (7am-2pm). Lisa Radford is the volunteer coordinator at Maria Parham Health, and in an email to WIZS News she said, “Volunteer services sponsors […]
— courtesy VGCC Vance-Granville Community College will hold an Open House for its Adult Basic Skills department on Tuesday, October 3, from 8:30 a.m. until 12:30 p.m. and later from 6 p.m. until 9 p.m., in room 7212 of Building 7 on the college’s Main Campus in Vance County. “We invite all who did not […]
— courtesy Vance County Schools zSpace, Inc. sponsored a visit by its Virtual Reality Classroom to the campus of Southern Vance High School on September 21, with the lab available for viewing by local students and educators throughout the school system. Students and educators had an opportunity to go inside the traveling classroom, contained in […]
— by Velvet (WIZS Announcer and Account Representative) The Methodist Men of Union Chapel United Methodist Church, 6535 Raleigh Road, are having their fall Stew Sale, Saturday, September 30. $7.00 per quart. Orders are pre-sell only and you can place your order by phoning John Frazier at 252-438-7788. Stew orders will be ready for pickup […]
The Town of Warrenton is proud to announce its first ever Family Movie Night on the historic courthouse square. The event begins about 7 p.m. Saturday. The feature film will be the 2016 Disney feature “The Jungle Book.” In an email to WIZS News, Mike Coffman, Town of Warrenton Commissioner, said the town recently bought […]
If you visit the Henderson YMCA webpage, you’ll learn that flu shots are being offered on Monday, Oct 2nd from 9 a.m. until 11 a.m. at the Henderson Family YMCA. Flu shots at the YMCA are with Granville-Vance Public Health. Your health matters, and you should fight influenza. The cost is $25 or you can […]
