
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: FRIDAY, May 6, 1994                   TAG: 9405060090
SECTION: CURRENT                    PAGE: NRV-12   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
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DATELINE: CHRISTIANSBURG                                LENGTH: Short

STATION `CONTEST' A JOKE

If a voice on the telephone says you've just won $105 dollars from Rock 105 (WVVV 104.9 FM), just hang up.

"No one from Rock 105 is doing that," said Rock 105 station manager Ralph Stewart. "It's just a practical joke."

Stewart said a man has been calling pay telephones in the area and telling those who answer that they've won $105. "We wish we could give away $105," he lamented Wednesday.

Three people have been sucked in by the jokers already, including one Virginia Tech student who rode the bus all the way to Rock 105's studios off N. Franklin Street only to learn she'd been duped.

"We gave her some movie tickets and some other stuff and took her home," Stewart said.

Stewart said one of the calls was to a pay telephone in McBryde Hall on the Tech campus. The station has reported the incident to Virginia Tech Police.

by CNB