A few times during its history, WUVT-AM aired a parody show called "The GAG RAG of the Air". The Gag Rag shows contained material too filthy for broadcast even today, and the tapes became legendary, as many Wooviteers in later years were only too eager to rack up the tapes in the production studio for a Gag Rag Listening Party.

Scott Wainwright:

"I'm pretty sure the first 'Gag Rag of the Air' on WUVT was '66 or '67. If memory serves, credit for the first one should go to Phil Beckman, Jim Camicia, and Bob Inskeep (Babinsky). Subsequent editions were produced, I know, in '68 and '69.

"Since the newspaper (which was called The Virginia Tech in the late '60s) had their Gag Rag edition, we Wooviteers decided to dour own 'parody' show as the 'Gag Rag of the Air.'"

"They called the paper the EECH, I think, for the 'gag rag' edition... The '67 edition of the on-air gag rag featured a snippet of an interview I had done with Jay Black of Jay and the Americans after their appearance at Squires (?) (I'm gettin' old), where Jay, upon my introducing him to start the interview said 'Can I say f---?' Of course we saved it; carted it up and played the f--- (rimshot) out of it.

Geez, that was some time...."

Hokie Bob Ashcraft:

"Gag Rags were usually done in the Spring quarter...I remember we patched out the Radford campus so it had to be after we had them on line, probably Spring of '71."

Bob's reference above to "patching-out Radford" referred to the fact that in 1971, the WUVT-AM signal was sent not only to the Tech campus dorms, but also to those at Radford College. At the time, Radford's student body was female. Fearing possible reprisals from Radford administrators over the content of the Gag Rag show, WUVT aired the Gag Rag of 1971 only on the Tech campus. A regular on-air music show was patched to the Radford feed.