How a former big-time Charlotte radio host reacted to losing a foot: 'It is what it is.' Théoden Janes, The Charlotte Observer Dec. 18—It's been 14 months since John Hancock retired from WBT-AM (1110), the Charlotte radio station that helped turn him into an icon, so he's had plenty of time now to get used to not sitting in a sound booth. He's had just one month, meanwhile, to get used to sitting in a wheelchair. On this afternoon, Hancock, 68, is sitting in that wheelchair in the middle of the living room of the house he shares in Belmont with his wife, Susan, and a visitor asks him what thoughts go through his mind when he looks down at where the lower part of his right leg used to be.