As it stands, that very building might be the most promo this low-profile station gets, but it is significant all the same.
Several stations have at least one hour of weekly programming allotted to blues.
But WSSD is the only station that broadcasts this music around the clock. People like to remark about the widening disparity between black blues performers and the white audiences who pay to hear them. In that light, WSSD, which beams primarily to the black-populated South Side, occupies an interesting niche. While blues is not the numero-uno music priority with the black population at large, there has always been an audience for the music among older blacks, and WSSD serves as a mirror image in that respect. Artists like Ronnie Lovejoy, Cicero Blake, Willie Clayton and Tyrone Davis, although usually well-represented at Blues Fest, are nearly underground the rest of the year.