WIVI
The Voice of St. Croix WIVI
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Hazel Stephens Vickers, sister of Tommie Barfield, possessed that pioneering spirit that had driven her family on the Georgia-Florida trail for six years by wagon, railroad train, and sailboat. Hazel went out to the Virgin Islands and with the help of her soon to be husband, Ray Higdon, established the first radio communications in 1950 heard all over the island and in Puerto Rico as well. In short Hazel was to the Virgin Islands what her sister, Tommie, was to Marco Island, perhaps more! Governor de Castro asked Ray and Hazel Higdon to write the story of radio broadcasting in the Virgin Islands and in the Caribbean in 1950. The radio station, WIVI in St. Croix, became WSTX AM/FM.
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