WSMX is a radio station

Radio station

Radio broadcasting is a one-way wireless transmission over radio waves intended to reach a wide audience. Stations can be linked in radio networks to broadcast a common radio format, either in broadcast syndication or simulcast or both...

 broadcasting a Religious format. Licensed to Winston-Salem, North Carolina

Winston-Salem, North Carolina

Winston-Salem is a city in the U.S. state of North Carolina, with a 2010 population of 229,617. Winston-Salem is the county seat and largest city of Forsyth County and the fourth-largest city in the state. Winston-Salem is the second largest municipality in the Piedmont Triad region and is home to...

, USA. The station is currently owned by Gospel Media, Inc..

History

At one time this was a Country-Western

Country music

Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...

 station with the letters WKBX and a 10,000-watt directional signal. Stuart Epperson sold the station early in 1976 to Randolph Properties Inc. of Dallas, Texas

Dallas, Texas

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, though general manager Curly Howard

Curly Howard (DJ)

Howard Sisk , known on the air as Curly Howard, was a disc jockey on several North Carolina radio stations....

 said no changes were planned. In the late 1970s it was WURL ("World"), the first all-news radio

All-news radio

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 station in the area. On November 3, 1976, Crash Williams said the news format would remain even after the demise of the NBC

NBC

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 news service in mid-1977. Later the station began airing Christian

Christian

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 programming, primarily for an African-American audience.