WDRK 93.3: The Dark

Saturday night turns into Sunday morning at WDRK.

Pauline finally gets her ditch answer. Russell calls about a stray dog. Travis reports back from the concession stand. School starts Monday, and Tim is working through what’s left on the page.

Then someone leaves an envelope on his desk.

There’s a procedure for that. It can wait.

For everyone still awake.

It’s midnight on WDRK 93.3.

School starts Monday, the road work hasn’t started, and Tim is reading what they handed him.

Gene calls with a correction. Carol is trying to plan around the rain. Travis has a water heater that might be fine and a Saturday morning he’s promised to somebody else.


Guest caller Kody from Mystery Archives lends his voice to a story about clearing out a house and a piece of furniture that won’t stay where it’s put.


Before the shift moves on, there’s an old program log from 19...something to put away.

Tim takes one more look.

It’s midnight in August, and a traveler in a roadside motel is listening to the same conversation through the wall.

He’s heard it three times now. He calls WDRK because the radio was already on.
Meanwhile, school starts Monday.

Dorothy has clothes to give away, Russell needs the bus schedule, and Brenda has a list for Saturday. Tim keeps the phones open.



 Ordinary calls. Long nights. Stay tuned.

School starts Monday, and Tim is sorting through another hot night at 93.3 WDRK.

Wanda has a new bus route to learn. Dale has an envelope that should have gone to the school months ago. Marcus needs to know what time to set his alarm.

Then Carol Ann calls with a question.

The same older woman has been calling her house for three years, always asking for Delia.

Carol Ann doesn’t know a Delia

.But the woman knows about the dogwood over her porch.

It hasn’t cooled off, and Tim is taking calls through another August night at 93.3 WDRK.June has hay in the road to report.

Dorothy’s yard sale starts in the morning. Out beyond Ridge Road, Russell is waiting to shut off his irrigation well.From his kitchen window, he can see a light coming down the old fire tower.It moves slowly. It stops at every landing.

Then Wes calls from the highway.He saw something different.

The church van is running behind, and Linda needs Tim to pass along the new arrival time at 93.3 WDRK.Twelve teenagers are riding home from St. Louis.

Their families are waiting in the church parking lot, and Brenda has gone home to make coffee.Between calls, a mill worker is trying to get used to nights, and Dorothy wants her yard sale on the calendar

.One of the kids needs a ride the rest of the way.

Fair week has come to town, and Tim is taking calls through another hot night at 93.3 WDRK.

There are fairground hours to straighten out, a young caller keeping her steer company, and more fish in Curtis’s freezer than he knows what to do with.


Earlier in the broadcast, a caller mentioned something she found along her fence line.

Tim brings it up in passing. Curtis wants to know more.

It’s too hot to sleep, and the phones are open at 93.3 WDRK.

A fisherman calls from a payphone, Carol is working through a kitchen full of canning jars, and Dale is trying to survive the night with a broken air conditioner.


Larry’s weather card says the river is steady. Curtis has been down at the water, and he isn’t so sure

Tim settles in for another overnight shift at 93.3 WDRK.

The community calendar needs reading, the phone lines are open, and a new segment called The Relay joins the broadcast.

There’s also a story about a power outage. The kind of thing you might call a radio station about when you’re still thinking about it late at night.
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It’s Tim’s first night behind the microphone at 93.3 WDRK.

There’s weather to get through, local sponsors to keep happy, and a phone line open to anyone still awake. Around town, the evening is mostly over.

For the people calling in, a few things are still on their minds Start here.

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