Page updated May 30, 2009
Page updated
May 30, 2009
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A TRIBUTE TO CLASSIC LOUISVILLE AND LEXINGTON, KY RADIO |
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May 30, 2009
May 25, 2009 We also added some WVLK, WKJJ and WKQQ images, courtesy Mr. Calhoun.
May 4, 2009
April 26, 2009 Also, thanks to Mr. Yates for getting us the audio from the B side of the 1964 WINN City Song 45. Hear it here.
April 1, 2009 We have a new WHAS photo too: Karl Shannon DJ-ing the 1979 WHAS Christmas party. Thanks to Mark Strauss for sending that one in.
March 23, 2009
March 8, 2009 |
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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. 1990 is the rough cut-off date for exhibits here, but if something cool pops up from later years, we'll consider posting it. All of our audio files are in MP3 format. We suggest they be downloaded to your hard drive for later listening 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 dubbed to 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. | ||
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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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COOL LINKS |
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