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WSLC History
Thanks to Jim Maloy of www.radioyears.com for this history of WSLC.
"The station was put on the air in September 1962 by owner Duane McConnell, who also owned WONN-AM 1230 in Lakeland. Duane also built WBIL-AM 1410 in Leesburg in the late 1950’s. The station manager’s name was Chuck Grant and the only two full time deejays were Alex Houston and Jim Maloy. Duane sent Jim up there when the station first went on the air but I left after a month due to conflicts with Grant and returned to WONN-AM 1230. Alex stayed on until around 1963 or 1964 when he, too, left for WONN. I don’t know when Duane sold the station. Our first format was MOR. The transmitter, tower and studios were on Highway 50 between Clermont and Groveland on the south side of the road. It was quite small with a control room, live studio, and manager’s office, plus a transmitter room and tower out back. It was located where a mobile home park exists today. I don’t know the status of the building and tower after the station moved out. I remember that during the Cuban missile crisis we got permission from WDBO-AM 580 in Orlando, to pick up their audio of President Kennedy’s news conferences concerning the Cuban Missile Crisis situation in October of 1962".

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