Readers of the Culpeper Times voted J D Slade as Best Radio Personality in Culpeper for 2016. JD said “Every year that I've won this, I remember working in the studio reading copy for Arch to critique....I got my start and radio education here and if I haven't said it lately, thanks for giving me the shot!!!!”
The studio where he does his morning show is the same studio where he started way back in 1974 during high school.