This page lists where you fit in to the overall history of Woovit.

We'll post your e-mail address, if you like, so that other Wooviteers can get in touch with you.

Bob Ayers (1968-1975) coachayers@verizon.net

I started as an AM announcer as a sophomore in 1968 and was crazy enough to take the job as director of the new FM "educational" station after it got on the air. At that time we were a hamster powered 10 watts. I had a hand in building the first FM stereo studio and spent a lot of time in the Greekcellar with the rest of the motley crew. I spent time as the summer chief engineer, newscaster, dj, carpenter and whatever needed to be done. Worked part time at WKEX and WRFT-TV (Roanoke) before finally graduating and got a real job. (After Woovit)

Phil Beckman (1966-1968) philbeckman@comcast.net

What I Did at Woovit: Firstly, a jazz show from 8-9pm on Wednesday nights! Then, as time passed and because I was one of the few with 'real' radio experience, just about anything there was to do. Music Director, Afternoons, occasional all-nighters, the Gag Rag, etc., etc. (After Woovit)

Jim Bigwood (1975-1978) jbigwood@mail.mpt.org

I started out in news in the Winter quarter of '75. I became an AM jock and also did a show on FM with Greg Bale. In 1976 I became involved with the Hokieman project and ended up writing a lot of the episodes with Greg Bale, as well as doing the voice of President Bill Lavery. (After Woovit)

Gary Blau (1972-1973) gblau@radiomasters.com

On air on the AM, "Hairy Gary" (yipes...), AM sales for 1 week (know your limitations...), AM music director Summer of '73, engineering gopher, occasional FM on-air (no fun without any jingles and spots....). (After Woovit)

Bob "Bachelor Bob" Boling (1969-1973) rsboling@yahoo.com

Business Manager and DJ'ing. (After Woovit)

Bob Brooks (1957-1958)

I was a DJ at WUVT about 1957....I was on the 8-9 pm slot M W F. I used to play "elevator music" and then Concert Hall came on at 9. Anyhow, that's about it....Bob Brooks...'58 ChE

Joey "The Boo" Buot (1986-1987) enginfrance@yahoo.com

Did a variety of shows on AM and FM (new music, classic rock, jazz, dance). Served as the Assistant News Director and Assistant Music Director. (After Woovit)

Jeannette Caporale (1972-1976) jeacap@hotmail.com

DJ. Sales. Hokieman. (After Woovit)

Hal (Dick Adams) Curling (1968-1968) bhcurling@msn.com  hal.curling@itt.com (work)

I was a DJ during the summer and fall quarters of 1968. My on-air name was Dick Adams, and I had a "sidekick" named Tex. During the summer, I had a prime-time slot and during the fall I filled in at other times. I worked at WUVT with "Buffalo" Bill Robins and Greg E. Lovin, among others. (After Woovit)

Mike Fesko (1972-1976)

Aerospace Engineer, did weekend shows for four years, one quarter served as AM PD. I recall doing a lot of airshifts and commercials, plus some script and segments as "ABC's Action Jackson" reporting for Tom Twine's WUVT morning show Winter Olympic coverage! I was in the Highty Tighties and am still in the Air Force, but really want to get back into voice work. (After Woovit)

Steve Floyd, a.k.a. "Mr. Ozone" (1977-1980) steve.floyd@apti.com

I arrived at the Woove in the summer of 1977. My first show was on Friday afternoon from 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm and I stayed in that time slot for the following 3 years doing "The Ozone Hours" in addition to other shows and times. The show was always about the music and the artists, highlighting progressive jazz, electronic music, and good 'ole space rock. I was also on the engineering staff maintaining the studios and especially the transmitter. It was always interesting working with John Lyles, Bill Suffa, and Bob Crockett in the engineering adventures. I fondly remember turning on for the first time the old RCA BTF-5 transmitter, which we had spent thousands of hours lovingly rebuilding, and having a blinding flash inside the power supply result in taking half of Lee Hall dark for a while! We were determined to get up and running at our new transmit power of 3,000 watts and eventually we got that RCA museum piece humming. For me, with my engineering knowledge of the station, it was always like flying a space ship when doing a show with all the meters bouncing and great tunes flowing! I really prided myself in maintaining excellent audio quality through the audio chain, and with the excellent (at that time) Optimod 8000A audio processor, we really sounded like an audiophile station. (After Woovit)

David Fuchsman (1976-1980) fuchsmad@montcourt.org

I was the Friday and Saturday night 8-11 or 9-12, oldies DJ on the AM station...after finaly passing the FCC test I also did FM including an oldies show...a rock show...and a Jewish Hour on Sunday mornings...right before the contemporary Christian music show.(After Woovit)

Tom Fugate (1974-1978) tom_fugate@yahoo.com

Took over for Mr. Twine as "Thomas in the Morning." All kinds of stuff. I once broadcast from the steam tunnels in Radford. Once gave away a freshman engineer to some coeds. (Things got odd during a Friday Night show.) (After Woovit)

Elliot Gibbs (1991-1994) http://www.powhatan.k12.va.us/teachers/PJHS/egibbs/index.html

I was a DJ for WUVT from the Fall of 1991 till the summer of 1994. My first year was on AM. That summer (1992) I was given a Jazz show. Soon after that, I was given a New Music Show. I did my best to satisfy the listening requirements of the WUVT listeners. During this time, there was a lot of “in fighting” within WUVT. Many of the managers did not like each other while several of the DJ’s had inflated egos. I did my best to keep away from the fray. Unfortunately, I eventually took sides which only harmed my reputation as well.

As time went on I was offered an opportunity to DJ a Monday night/Tuesday morning show from 12AM to 3AM. Had I not had a course in Environmental Law Tuesday mornings at 9AM, I would have relished such a time slot. Looking back, I wonder if it would have been possible for me to balance Environmental Law with the late night radio slot.(After Woovit)

Ginny Gillikin (1988 - 1991) http://www.myspace.com/ginnysg

I hosted a "new music" show at WUVT for three years. In addition to alternative music, I would play blocks of dance tracks, speed metal, Gothic music, etc.--a lot of variety! (After Woovit) [Updated April 6, 2008]

Norm Hyde (1977-1980) nhyde@vafb.com

Spent some of the craziest years of my life at the Woov. Was DJ as a sophomore, assistant music director as junior and AM PD as a senior, '79-'80, in addition to time spent with the Collegiate Times and the New Virginians. Still remember the thousands of record albums lining the
walls on the top floor of old Squires Student Center - and the hours spent filing those things. Hi to Linda DeVito, Carol Dedman, Bill Suffa, Karl Rove and some other long-forgotten names from my youth. (lost a few years there after college. Didn't we all? There was that overnight camping trip at the New River... ) The early shifts were good training for the weird hours I ended up working later, though. My most embarrassing Woovit moment was being the fill-in color announcer for an away baseball game. Bob Mosolgo kept trying to throw the conversation to me, and I knew so little about baseball that he ended up doing the broadcast solo. (After Woovit)

Bob Keeton (1968-1972) www.LivingSuccessfully.com

WUVT was my first stop on arrival at Tech. And I was G.M. in my senior year. In fact, the station was reason enough to attend Tech. It's what I wanted to do: radio, not college. WUVT was on the 2nd floor of the Publications Bldg. before moving to Squires. The facility had...uh...character!
(After Woovit)

Mike Kender (1982-1982) mtkender@verizon.net

I co-hosted a midnight to 3AM 1960s show with Eugene Evon in 1982. (After Woovit)

Brenda Jean Kibler (1966-1969) teramo48@aol.com

I was "BJK," the first female disc jockey at WUVT. Although tame by today's standards, I was known for my double entrendres. Not many people knew what I looked like, so I loved standing in the cafeteria line and hearing, "Did you hear what BJK said today?" In fact, the house mother at Hillcrest once took me aside and said that a lady did not say those things! WUVT was one big happy family and it helped keep me sane during the first few years of college. (After Woovit)

Rich Kolker (1971-1973) rkolker@spacepolicy.org

I did some DJ shifts on the AM side, but mostly "Total Information News" with Terry Jemison and the rest of our troublemaking crowd. Somewhere along the way was the live coverage of the launch of Apollo 16 (following the almost legendary drive down in Craig "Magilla" Jackson's '64 Ford Falcon) with Magilla, Lee Gregory and...who else was it that came with us? (After Woovit)

Ernie Kyger (1973-1977) erniek4567@aol.com

I was an announcer on the AM and FM for 4 years and was AM Chief Announcer, AM Program Director, and Promotions Director. Also did much outside work at WQBX-AM (7Q) in Christiansburg. Thanks for this web page Tom! Would love to hear from anyone who would care to remember some very special times at the Woov. (After Woovit)

Dave Landers (1972-1976) dlanders@us.ibm.com

Engineering/FM (my roomies called it the Crosby Stills and Nash show), Chief Engineer 1974-1976 and oversaw the increase from 10W to 700W. (We put the antenna up over the Christmas holidays because we lied to the University about how tall it was....when Dean Brown came back and saw it out his window, he wanted us to take it down, but by then it was on the air, the old antenna was gone, and there wasn't anything he could do). The GNM69 blew up one day....it took us 3 days to fix it (rectifier stack had blown up) and we worked on it for another two weeks with the power supply out of the chassis. After two weeks I figured out the reason it blew up was the fact that the secondary of the plate transformer had shorted to the case...and with the chassis sitting on the floor the case wasn't grounded....and had been floating around 1300VAC for two weeks while we had been working on it.. That's as close as I have ever come to dying from electronics. (After Woovit)

Tom Ligon (1971-1974) www.angelfire.com/va2/TomLigon/index.html

Engineering, Morning AM broadcasts as Tom Allen, FM broadcasts (mostly classical and jazz. One evening when the newscaster and progressive jock failed to show up, I suckered the classical crowd about 20 minutes into the progressive rock show by playing ELP's "Pictures at an Exhibition."
(After Woovit)

Here's a bit of art I did that Jan (Fontanier) put on the back of a Music Changes survey. (Click to enlarge):

Bill Lukens (1976-1977) lukens@adelphia.net

Newsreader on the FM station for a short while. Worked with Paul Shugrue, Graham Wilson, Gayle Noyes, and all the other TV studio folks, spent most of my time working with the Television Studio production, including Professor Mandelstam Econ classes. (After Woovit)

John T.M. Lyles (1975-1978) jtml at vla.com (replace at with @, no spammers)
Chief Operator (Engineer), FM Jock, Jazz Music Director. (After Woovit)

Russ Marshall (1967-1969) russandde@worldnet.att.net

I started in the fall of 1967 (freshman) as a sports guy (5 minutes or so at about 8 pm). During that fall quarter, I noticed one of the announcers had quit a 10 am time slot, so I graciously made an offer to the PD (Buffalo Bill Robbins) to take the slot. He asked me "Do you know how to run the board?" I said "Of course I do!" (I didn't) So I did my first show, which was a disaster. Poor Bob Ridle was in the next room having to listen to it. He came over once to remind me that our call letters were WUVT, not WPGC. Anyway, I kept at it by doing others' shows on weekend nights when they wanted to go to concerts or whatever. By the end of the year, I was PD for a while, and then Sales Manager for a while the next year. I got the itch to "go free radiating" and started doing the 6-11pm show nightly on WVVV-FM for a while ... and later worked at WKEX with Ted James, Larry Russell, Bob Ashcraft, and others from WUVT as we proceeded to take a country station and tried to make it sound like top 40. (After Woovit)

Peter Morrison (1982-1987) ratdog@ntelos.net

DJ. "Industrial Funk" and "Much Too Funky." My favorite memory of WUVT was trying to nab someone who was cutting the transmission line between the studio and Lee Hall. (Click here for the full story.) There are so many memories. REM at the party, after the After Sundown show. Playing foosball at the frat with The Rescue. The Bangles manager kicking me off the stage as I trying to intro the band. Reading the Pet Pick Up entry for a lost sheep (thinking it had something to do with the animal science department, and getting to the end of the page and reading the contact name at the end of the page ... "Bo Peep.") It was a fantastic joke and I was totally suckered. Good job whoever did that. (After Woovit)

Greg Neate (1997-1998) www.echelonproductions.com

Special Events Coordinator, Music Director Staff, Radio Show (obviously) (After Woovit)