WHEELING - A frantic Nick Nash told Ohio Valley News that he could not get the radio station to stop playing LeAnn Rimes' 2006 album Whatever We Wanna. He said that a computer malfunction froze the station's media player."I swear to all of our listeners that we are trying to get this fixed," said Nash. "Trust me, it's playing at full volume in our studio and nobody knows what to do about it."
The catastrophe occurred just after 3 p.m. during Nash's daily segment. He originally played the song And It Feels Like as a prank.
"We had someone call in and request some Metallica," he said. "I thought we'd get a good laugh if we surprised him LeAnn Rimes before switching over to Master of Puppets, but obviously nobody's laughing anymore."Much to Nash's dismay, the song played through in its entirety, followed by the rest of the album. Thousands of blue-collar workers across the Ohio Valley were forced to turn their radios off and work in silence.
"You know, it wouldn't be so bad if were a different LeAnn Rimes album," said Billy Ray Jones, a truck driver for Carenbauer Distributing. "Blue was pretty good but she's just totally passé anymore."
Nash said that he's been working overtime to help the IT crews get the problem solved.
"I tried unplugging it and plugging it back in," he said. "But the backup generators just kick in and keep it going. Then we tried unhooking the generators, but that didn't work either."
Steven Fairchild, a WEGW employee, was sent to the hospital after nearly being electrocuted when he tried to disconnect the generators. Nash added that he thinks the radio station may even be haunted.
"After Steve got shocked, all the lights dimmed and the thermostat went way up," he said. "Then LeAnn got louder and louder."
Wheeling mayor Andy McKenzie said that if the situation is not resolved soon, drastic measures may be taken.
"If they don't get it fixed, we're taking matters into our own hands," said McKenzie. "We're going to have to blow the place up."
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