WSLC-AM 1340 Clermont

WSLC-AM 1340
Clermont

Original Call Letters: WSLC

Originally Licensed: Sep 1962

Original City of License: Clermont

Original Frequency: 1340

Origin of Call Letters: Location; South Lake County

Original Power: 250 Watts

Original Location: Highway 50 between Clermont and Groveland

Original Format: MOR

Network Affiliation(s):

Owner(s):	1962-Duane McConnell
	1965-Fidelity Broadcasting Corp.
	1971-Lake County Broadcasting Company
	1975-WWFL, Inc. (Leisure Time Communications)
	1983-K.A.B. Communications Inc.
	1985-K.A.B. Communications Inc ($237,000)
	1985-Root Company
	1986-Talbert Gray
	1987-American Broadcast Association ($255,000)
	1989-StarStrip Communications Inc.
	1996-Central Florida Investments, Inc.

History Of Call Letters and Formats:	WSLC-1962-MOR "The Voice Of South Lake County"
	WWFL-1971-Big Bands
	WWFL-1975-MOR
	WWFL-1978-Country Western
	WWFL-1986-Big Bands
	WWFL-1987-Dark
	WWFL-1988-Rock/Country "Rock/Country 1320"
	WWFL-1996-Traveler Information

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".