Page updated July 08, 2008
Page updated
July 08, 2008
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A TRIBUTE TO CLASSIC LOUISVILLE AND LEXINGTON, KY RADIO |
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July 8, 2008
June 29, 2008
June 14, 2008
May 8, 2008
May 5, 2008 April 27, 2008 Former Lexington radio and TV guy Mike Proctor shares his memories from WVLK, WBLG and more here. April 24, 2008 Thanks to Tad Murray and Dana Greene for sending in a 1994 aircheck of Eric Stevens doing mornings on Lexington's WWYC. April 12, 2008 Read the Ron Clay C-J article published the day after his 1991 death here. Thanks to Future Bob for saving and sharing it. Our appreciation to Eugene Oakes who sent us airchecks of Lexington's WLAP-FM from the station's automated days in the 80s, plus a 1983 'check of Bobby Ellis on WJYL and a 1984 sweeper break from WLRS. April 10, 2008 Check out the two new May 1983 airchecks of WQMF's "Show With No Name" (Ron Clay and Terry Meiners) here, We appreciate long-time Louisville DJ Future Bob for sending us these goodies from the past. A big thank you to Frank Fendley for contributing a montage of seven WRKA jingles from the mid-1980s. |
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ABOUT THIS SITE |
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building tribute Websites to Louisville's two great Top 40 AM stations of
the '60s and '70s (WAKY
and WKLO) we wanted
to salute other pre-1990 Louisville radio. Stations like
WHAS, WAVE,
WINN
and more. 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 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're on a dial-up 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. -- John Quincy, Curator |
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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 THE CURATOR |
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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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