Let's play some Alabama. The phone rings again. No, Tom says, he doesn't know what went wrong. If you're newly born, lately dead or just plain sick, if the Methodist Church is holding an oyster supper, the Raritan Club is sponsoring a dance or the Homemakers Association needs new members WVLS is the place to find out. The 14 volunteer DJs include a storekeeper, sheep farmer, lawyer and postmaster, along with a couple of high school students.
None has professional experience.
All have a longtime love of radio and loads of enthusiasm, broadcasting every night from 6 to 10, unless they feel like staying on until 11 or midnight. Their playlist consists of whatever they feel like putting on the air, which means anything from Willie Nelson to Whitesnake can be floating across the Shenandoah Valley at any particular time. No other station is exactly like this one. It doesn't have much power. I forget how much.