DJ Spotlight by Vonda Armstrong

DJ Spotlight Phillip Feazell

For the past 25 years plus, Z13 has been able to spin some of the best Southern gospel music from the top recording artists in the industry, for the very best listening audience. Z13 is also one of the few radio stations that help these artists by charting their music. In April 2019, they became a Fox News Affiliate with Top of The Hour News.

Phillip Feazell, General Manager, has been involved with radio for over 20 years and in the music industry for over 30 years. This month, we are shining the DJ Spotlight on him.

Vonda Armstrong: What is your current radio position, station and station website?

Phillip Feazell: My position with WZCT AM 1330 is general manager. Our website is www. wzctam1330. com.

VA: What age were you when you realized you wanted to work in radio and why?

PF: As a teenager, I listened to radio a lot. At that time, the music was on AM stations and news/talk stations, and I thought that was maybe something I would like to do.

By Vonda Armstrong

VA: Who were your early influences or mentors?

PF: In the early 2000s, my wife and I attended Trinity Baptist Church, in Oxford, Alabama. The church had a Christian school as well as a radio station. Being on the educational band, they could not sell advertising. Everything had to be listeners’ supported. Every six months, they had a fundraiser called share-a-thon. My wife and I owned a business in the area, and I went by to see if I could help them. The pastor, Dr. C.O. Grinstead, asked if I had ever operated the control board. I said no. He told me to sit down and said, ‘This button controls this. This button controls that.’ Then, he left me there with donors wanting to talk live. It was sink or swim. We made it. As I found later, he didn’t go very far. I went back numerous time over the years to help. He probably would have been my mentor. I guess my first experience was volunteer. The next was my wife volunteering me to operate the control board for her first talk show, “Afternoon Drive Home,” which is now airing on our station.

VA: When you’re not on the air or at the radio station working, what would we find you doing?

PF: When I am not working in the radio station, you could find my wife and I working with some project around our 38-acre farm or fishing in our pond.

VA: Please share your testimony with us.

PF: I have been involved in Southern gospel music for over 25 years. I have enjoyed having the ability to share the message of Christ in song and now to use the radio to share to a much larger audience..