A TRIBUTE TO CLASSIC LOUISVILLE AND LEXINGTON, KY RADIO

August 10, 2010

Thanks to Joe Caruso for the pics just added to the WDJX page, and to Tyler Cox for his 1980 photo now on WAVE photo page 2.

August 8, 2010

A great big thank you to Tyler Cox for several audio contributions to the WAVE, WLAP and WVLK pages. Included are two 1970s Tyler Cox WAVE newscast montages, two WAVE Radio mid-70s news retrospectives, a bit of a 1973 Ike Smith WLAP newscast, part of a Steve York 1973 WVLK newscast, and a nice montage of Tyler's 1974 WVLK newscasts.

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

WKQQ's Dennis Dillon rock-and-roll story is now part of LKYRadio.com's DJs Page.

July 4, 2010

Thanks to Terry Dismore for the photo of the 1992 Big 84 weekend crew, which we've added to WHAS Photo Page 4.

June 29, 2010

A video tribute to legendary UK play-by-play announcer Claude Sullivan has been added to the WVLK page.

June 21 , 2010

We added a photo of current and past WVLK staffers here.

May 31 , 2010

A great big thank you to Future Bob for the classic WQMF pics just added here.

May 5 , 2010

We've added the 2010 WHAS Kentucky Derby montage here, courtesy Jim Fenn.

April 17, 2010

WQMF celebrated their 20th anniversary with the release of a "best of" aircheck CD in 2001. If you missed getting your copy, catch MP3 files from the disc here, compliments Gene Smith.

April 15, 2010

Thanks to Jim Fenn for the WHAS 2009 Kentucky Derby montage, which may be enjoyed here.

March 6, 2010

Check out the Vince Staten 1979 column featuring WINN, WZZX and WAKY, courtesy former WAKY DJ Darrell Douglas -- and the 1981 Billboard article about country radio in Louisville that featured WAMZ, WCII and WINN.

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