A TRIBUTE TO CLASSIC LOUISVILLE AND LEXINGTON, KY RADIO

January 21, 2011

Two Bill Bailey photos have been added to the WVLK Page.

January 14, 2011

The Duke of Louisville has left us. Bill Bailey passed away this morning at the age of 81: Bill Bailey Tribute Page

December 26, 2011

Thanks to Adam Jones for the scan of a 1962 WINN print ad, and to Keith G. for a pic of a WINN 1970s bus banner. Find them here and here.

December 22, 2011

A 50,000 watt thank you to Mark Strauss for the right-off-the-board unscoped recording of WHAS' 1979 "Metz Here" 20th anniversary show. Mark also contributed a clean-sounding, in-the-clear version of Gary Burbank's "Mack The Knife" Snow Shark Song. Find them both here.

October 10, 2011

Thanks to Jerry Keifer for the scan of the 1972 WAXU Coverage Map. (Jerry says "I'm sure Dave Carrier and Ray Hooper hustled some biz with this.)

September 18, 2011

Phil Osborne has been added to the DJs Page -- and there are a couple of new WVLK pictures, courtesy Ken Gullette.

July 24, 2011

Now available: a ZIP archive of airchecks from most of Joe Donovan's final WHAS show (August 29, 1997). Find it here.

July 21, 2011

A great big thank you to Barry Fox (Greg Peddicord) for the early-80s pics just posted on the WVLK page.

July 18, 2011

Thanks to Dave Reichel for the early '70s WXVW pics, and to Gene Smith for the scan of the 1988 Joe Donovan WHAS listener award.

June 27, 2011

Our appreciation to Paul J. Hughes for the WBLG aircheck of the "Pattie-Hurst" hour (with Jack Pattie and Ron Hurst) from 1975.

June 8, 2011

Thanks to Gene Smith for the scans of the two WVEZ fridge magnets from the '80s.

May 12, 2011

Thank you to Jim Fenn for the 2011 WHAS Radio Derby Day Montage, now available here. Jim writes, "This makes the 30th year that the station has produced these Derby montages. I think you have all of them except for 1983. That one has been lost for years. I hope someday someone comes across it."

May 4, 2011

Mucho thanks (again) to former WLAP engineer Tom Fitzgerald for the 1973 studio construction photos of WLAP at "Radio Park". View them here.

February 27, 2011

More WLAP pics have been posted -- this time from 1968 and courtesy Ron Chilton. See them here.

February 20, 2011

Our deepest appreciation to former WLAP engineer Tom Fitzgerald for the 1974 pics of Lexington's "Radio Park". Find them here.

February 12, 2011

Thanks to Barb Polk, we've launched our brand new WHAS Video Page, featuring TV commercials of WHAS radio personalities past and present.

February 7, 2011

We've added Don Bader to the DJs Page.

Thanks to former WHAS promotions director Barbara Polk for the great late '70s pics we've added here.

February 3, 2011

Our thanks to Joe Crawford for sending us a copy of a 1991 WZKS composite, produced by then-PD Joel Widdows.

January 5, 2011

Check out the WXVW Page for new WXVW memories from Mark "Buzz" Knight.

December 24, 2010

Thanks to Terry Meiners for two cool 1986 WHAS control room photos with Terry and Jerry Abramson, now proudly displayed here.

What Used To Be New

A MESSAGE FROM CURATOR JOHN QUINCY

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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ABOUT JOHN QUINCY

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.

Today Quincy is the assistant program director, technical director, morning show producer and imaging guy at News-Talker WTMA in Charleston. Along with his radio work, he does regular mobile DJ gigs plus creates and maintains Web sites including tribute sites to Louisville radio stations WAKY and WKLO, and Charleston radio stations WTMA, WCSC and WOKE. Interests include all flavors of Star Trek and radio jingles.

OTHER RADIO TRIBUTE SITES YOU MAY ENJOY

WAKY, Louisville
WKLO, Louisville
WCSC, Charleston
WOKE, Charleston
WQAM, Miami
WTMA, Charleston