MACON, Ga. — In this age of streaming music and having things on-demand some people may not listen to the radio anymore.
As we continue to celebrate Black History Month, a Central Georgia radio station is keeping the airwaves active every day with very lively programming.
At The Glory radio station off Courtland Avenue in Macon, it's not uncommon to see Vertise Z Rozier in the captain's seat driving the Glory train.
“We wanted to do something for the community, I knew of WDDO all of my life and we wanted to give a station back to the community, so WDDO is really a community station, we play the music and do all that, but it belongs to the community,” Rozier said.
In 2019, Rozier, Bishop Don Scott, and their team got together to obtain the station. With the station under their control, one of their popular audio programs, Drive Time, continued to grow.
During the show, people can call station and the hosts get to connect them to resources and answer important questions about things going on in the community.
“People started calling in and the next thing you know man, we started back on this station, and it has blown up so big, I mean the old call, the young, the babies, the children,” Rozier said.
The Glory is way more than just a radio station. It is a ministry showing how the Church of God goes beyond four walls.
“We could have moved downtown, but we wanted to stay in our area, in the area where it is reachable, where we take our glory house, we feed the hungry, we clothe the young,” Rozier said.
At least once a week, you can catch the station giving out food to the homeless. A mission Scott says they take a step further, serving as a lifeline for some.
“It's one of those things where you available to call in and say what the need is, and when you say what they need is, we can meet it, as best we can, we may not be able to do everything but what we can do, we will attempt to do,” Scott said.
Today, WDDO not only helps the community but stays on the airways with more than a dozen different programs during the week and gospel music when those programs aren't running.
Rozier says he realizes the importance of being a black- owned businesses especially as we celebrate Black History Month.
“We are stronger together, that we are powerful pulling as one, and not divided,” Rozier said.