Cofield's Corner - The Oxford Eagle

Cofield's Corner - The Oxford Eagle

On Sunday, May 1, 1955, the AM radio dial came alive in Oxford at AM 1420. The site was a former feed store on University Avenue (the present location of Kroger). And in the rear, there was the broadcast tower standing in the deepest gully in Lafayette County. The daytime-only frequency had been awarded to Cletus Quick. The call letters he chose ended with “SUH” representing the phonetic spelling of the way Southerners say “sir.” In 1985, WSUH-W…