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A TRIBUTE TO CLASSIC LOUISVILLE AND LEXINGTON, KY RADIO |
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August 10, 2010
August 8, 2010 Thanks also to David Stockhoff for the additions to our WHAS photo archives (we're now up to five WHAS picture pages) and a WDJX article and pic.
July 22, 2010
July 4, 2010
June 29, 2010
June 21 , 2010
May 31 , 2010
May 5 , 2010
April 17, 2010
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A MESSAGE FROM CURATOR JOHN QUINCY |
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building tribute Websites to Louisville, Kentucky's two great Top 40 AM stations of
the '60s and '70s (WAKY
and WKLO) we wanted
to salute other pre-1990 Louisville radio online -- stations like
WHAS, WAVE,
WINN
and more. So we launched LKYRadio.com. Since the "L" in "LKYRadio.com" could as easily stand for "Lexington" as well as "Louisville," we decided to also include stations from Kentucky's second largest city (which happens to be our hometown) like WLAP and WVLK. On this site you will find airchecks, jingles, photos, and surveys from and information about Louisville and Lexington radio in the pre-CD, pre-consolidation days; the days when "cluster" didn't mean a third of the radio stations in town. We're most interested in items before 1990, but if something cool pops up from later years, we'll probably post it. All of our audio files are in MP3 format. For optimal listening enjoyment, we suggest they be downloaded to your hard drive for later listening on your computer or iPod-type device instead of trying to stream them, especially if you have a slow Internet connection. Do you have any material or information you'd like to make available to this project? Please contact us. We'd be very happy to accept additional airchecks, photos, surveys and other pieces of historic data to share with our visitors. Reel-to-reel and cassette tapes will be archived on CD at no charge. |
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If you'd like to assist us financially as we preserve the history of Louisville and Lexington radio, press the button below to make a donation of any amount via PayPal. Besides Web hosting fees, we have ongoing expenses for things like postage and audio archiving. (Rather contribute through snail mail? Contact us for the address.) Thanks so much for your support of LKYRadio.com. |
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Snag "WAKY
Remembered" and "Bill Bailey: A Louisville Legend"
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ABOUT JOHN QUINCY |
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Even though he was born 15 years earlier, Lexington, Kentucky native John Quincy [Real name: Ted Tatman] didn't really discover Top 40 radio until he smuggled in a transistor radio to a church camp outside of Louisville in the summer of 1970. After a few hours of listening to the legendary WAKY in his dorm room, he caught the radio fever. Upon his return to Lexington and a visit to local stations to find out how radio stations really performed that on-air magic, he was hooked. Shortly thereafter a high school teacher told him about a Junior Achievement program being sponsored by WVLK-AM. Every Wednesday night WVLK would turn over a half hour of their programming to high school kids, who would sell, operate, and program it. Quincy made sure he was one of the ones chosen to be one of the teen DJs. Between his junior and senior year of high school, Quincy scored a summer job working seven days a week at WBGR AM & FM in Paris, Kentucky. Most of the time was spent running the board for Cincinnati Reds baseball games, but for part of each shift he got to play DJ. While it was country music (which was especially bad in the early '70s), it was radio. From that point, Quincy never looked back.
There were stints in other Lexington area radio stations (WEKY,
WAXU, WCBR, WKDJ, and WBLG) before Quincy got the call in 1979 to
escape Lexington's chilly winters and work in sunny Savannah, Georgia
(WKBX and WZAT). Then in 1981, Quincy moved up the coast to
Charleston, South Carolina to take on PM drive duties at rock
station WSSX. Later Charleston
gigs included AC WXTC (where he spent nearly 10 years as PD), All
70s WJUK, Country WBUB, Oldies WXLY, News-Talk WTMA, and Country
WNKT. Subscribers
to Tom Konard's
Aircheck Factory service might remember Quincy
as one of the narrators of "Around The Dial" and various profiles.
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OTHER RADIO TRIBUTE SITES YOU MAY ENJOY |
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WAKY, Louisville |
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