A TRIBUTE TO CLASSIC LOUISVILLE AND LEXINGTON, KY RADIO

April 29, 2012

We've added our first photo to the WVLK-FM Page, courtesy Tad Murray.

March 15, 2012

Two new photos have been added to the WKQQ Page, courtesy Mike Graves.

March 11, 2012

Thanks to Dave Reichel for the 1960 aircheck from the WHAS Radio "High Teens" show.

February 20, 2012

Our first Bill Bailey WTMT airchecks are now online. Hear how the Duke of Louisville sounded in February of 1989. Thanks to Terrell Metheny for sending them our way.

January 21, 2012

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

January 14, 2012

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.

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