What Used To Be New
This page contains items that formerly appeared on the Home Page under "What's New."

February 22, 2008

Thanks to Tim Tolbert for the audio sample of WTMT DJ Kenny Holliday's 1973 local hit "Now I Lay Me Down To Cry." Download it here.

January 12, 2008

Nice to hear from former WHAS air personality Dave McCree (1970-1973) who not only gave us some info for our DJs Page, but provided some WHAS Ink from 1973.

December 28, 2007

Our appreciation to Sean Page for sending us several chock-full-o-bits WQMF airchecks of the late Ron Clay, including a great 1990 interview with Star Trek's Mr. Sulu, George Takei.

Sean also sent us a brief aircheck of Stew Williams on WWKY.

December 19, 2007

Mucho gracias to Terry Meiners for his WHAS interview with former WAKY and WHAS air personality Gary Burbank, recorded just a couple days before Gary's retirement from Cincinnati's WLW. Find it here.

December 15, 2007

Leonard Yates comes through with scans of surveys from WKJJ, WLOU, WOWI and WTMT.

December 8, 2007

Thanks to Leonard Yates for giving us a AM stereo copy of the three-hour WHAS Christmas Eve 1984 "Kentuckiana Flashback" as he played the biggest Christmas songs from the mid-50s on. We had to scope down the music for online posting, but all commercials, promos and newscasts remain untouched in the Santa-sized MP3 you can download here.

November 9, 2007

Another batch of WHAS Kentucky Derby calls have been added here, this time covering the years 1971 to 2005. Our thanks again to Mark Travis for his audio contributions.

November 6, 2007

Our gratitude to Mark Travis for airchecks of WHAS Kentucky Derby calls from 1936 though 1970 (including Cawood Ledford's first Derby call in 1961). We've created a new page for these new clips and all of our WHAS Derby audio.

September 16, 2007

Bone up on some of the history of WAVE Radio in "WAVG 970 AM Marks 60 Years of Broadcast History" here.

September 11, 2007

Thanks to Leonard Yates for the 1988 Courier-Journal Magazine piece on former WHAS DJ Gary Burbank (who will be retiring from his daily WLW radio show at the end of this year).

September 10, 2007

Scans of three WHAS bumper stickers have been added here.

September 8, 2007

More WHAS audio delights from Mark Travis have been posted including airchecks of WHAS' 20th and 25th anniversary shows and the 1949 show celebrating WHAS' new studio. From '63 you'll find opens for the Kentucky Derby and "Echoes of 1963," and from '64 there's a news open. Download them all here.

September 7, 2007

Thanks to Mark Travis, lots of wonderful WHAS audio has been added. You can now download airchecks of Jim Walton's Waxworks (1949), Cawood Ledford's final UK Catcalls show (1992), a Terry Meiners' helicopter report of the Pegasus Parade (2000), and reaction to Cawood Ledford's death (2001). 

There are also newscasts from Cornelia DeBruin (1982) Beth Merrell (1992) and Shelly Catherine (1994), plus WHAS news coverage of Denny Crum's retirement (2001), the death of NASCAR's Dale Earnhartd (2001), the Governor Patton sex scandal (2002) and the Lexington plane crash (2006).

In addition, there's a recording of the Cawood Ledford tribute at Rupp Arena (1992), an interview with Barry Bingham, Jr. (1997), a WHAS 1979-1991 production montage -- and last-but-not-least, a fascinating 1994 lunchtime conversation between five "classic" WHAS announcers: Ray Shelton, Milton Metz, Randy Atcher, Bob Lawson and Tom Brooks. Find it all here.

September 2, 2007

Check out the scan of a WWYC bumper sticker here, compliments of Jim Plummer.

August 21, 2007

Thanks to Tim Tolbert for the 1988 WAMZ aircheck of Coyote Calhoun interviewing Keith Whitley, just months before Whitley's untimely death.

August 11, 2007

The 30th anniversary of Elvis Presley's death is coming up this week. Hear how WHAS' Gary Burbank and Steve George covered the news of that sad 1977 day here, courtesy Mark Travis. It's a good time to check out Moon Mullins' August 16, 1977 Elvis death coverage on WINN too.

August 9, 2007

Thanks to Kentucky radio historian Rob Calhoun for his memories on WVLK-FM's 1982 format switch.

August 7, 2007

More Mark Travis radio history online; we've created pages for Lexington stations WTKT, WWYC and WVLK-FM for his latest contributions. You'll also find a new December '93 aircheck of Mark playing oldies on WHAS.

August 6, 2007

Thanks to Mark Travis for sending us airchecks of his early work at WAXU and WCII, plus an aircheck of Bill Cody from WCII.

August 5, 2007

Additional WHAS Derby Day montages (from 1990 through 2007) are now online here, Thanks again to Jim Fenn for sending them our way.

August 2, 2007

Several WHAS Derby Day montages from the 1980s have been posted here, compliments of Jim Fenn.

July 17, 2007

A 50,000 watt thank you to Jim Fenn for sending us a copy  of Milton Metz' final 3-hour "Metz Here" WHAS show. Travel back to July 15, 1993 and enjoy "El Metzo" in glorious unscoped AM stereo here.

July 15, 2007

Thanks to Jim Fenn for a great-quality aircheck of WHAS' coverage of the 1973 Kentucky Derby. Download it to hear Milton Metz, Cawood Ledford, Mike James, and Dick Gilbert -- along with several commercials for Louisville's own Fall City Beer.

July 13, 2007

A photo of a one-of-a-kind WAMZ briefcase has been added to the WAMZ page, thanks to Bill Bryant.

July 10, 2007

You can now download airchecks of Mark Travis doing WHAS traffic reports on Derby Day 1998 and Joe Sharkey doing one of his last shows on WAMZ in 2006.

June 29, 2007

We've created a page for Louisville's WWKY, with airchecks courtesy Jim Barks.

Several WAMZ Airchecks from the '80s and '90s have been added. Thanks to Jim Barks for recording them, saving them and making them available to LKYRadio.com. Jim also contributed several just-posted WTMT Airchecks.

June 25, 2007

Thank you to Bill Elliott for sending us more WQHI jingles, liners and TV commercial audio. Find them and all things "Hi 95" here.

June 6, 2007

See how the Telecommunications Act of 1996 affected Louisville radio one year later in Radio Revolution, a February 1997 Courier-Journal feature. You'll see who owned what 10 years ago and how the stations stacked up ratings-wise. Our appreciation to Leonard Yates for letting us borrow the original to retype and scan.

June 2, 2007

Thanks to Leonard Yates for the just-added WINN airchecks of Wretched Richard (Dick Braun) and Jack Daniel from 1980 and 1981.

May 18, 2007

"The (Wise) Crack of Dawn" is a March 1996 Courier-Journal Scene feature that spotlight several of Louisville's morning radio shows. Because Leonard Yates sent it our way, you can read it here.

May 15, 2007

Our appreciation to Bob Walker for sending us an aircheck of WHAS-FM from their final days of their classical music format.

May 14, 2007

A 70s-era photo of Danny King has been added to WAVE Photo Page 1, courtesy Tom Taylor.

May 10, 2007

We've added a WHAS aircheck that will be of special interest to fans of the local Louisville music scene of the '50s and '60s. It's a February 1980 edition of Joe Donovan's "Saturday Night Revival," with appearances by members of the Monarchs, the Epics and the Sultans, along with local music expert Leonard Yates. Thanks to Bob Walker for sending it our way.

April 30, 2007

Before it was WAMZ, 97.5 FM in Louisville was all-news WNNS, carrying NBC's News and Information Service. Our appreciation goes out to Bob Walker, who sent us a great-quality unscoped hour from WNNS' final evening of existence. Download it here. 

April 24, 2007

Thanks to John Owen for the contribution of historic photos and promotional material from WAVE, WLAP and WLOU.

Now you can download 1993's out-of-print "The Best of Terry Meiners....So Far!" here. Thanks to Bob Walker for providing a copy of this WHAS gem.

April 21, 2007

A site search function has been added.

April 17, 2007

WVLK's 1960s "The Station That's All Heart" jingles from MARS Productions are now online. A great big 59 thank-you to Paul J. Hughes for making them available.

April 16, 2007

Additional history has been posted on the WVEZ page, compliments of Mike Griffin.

Thanks to Bill Elliott for sending in a batch of 1974 and 1975 WQHI jingles and TM Stereo Rock IDs (originally digitized by Alan White) plus a scan of the front of a WQHI Christmas card.

WVLK '70s jock Alan Reed checks in with his memories of the Big 59, plus two of his airchecks and a 1976 station composite. Find them all here.

April 12, 2007

Thanks to Terry Meiners for sending us a bunch of his best WHAS bits. Download over 30 minutes of classic Meiners comedy here.

April 9, 2007

We've added a 1990 Dick Braun aircheck to the WAMZ Page, courtesy Jim Barks -- plus TM Winning Score and Good Feelings jingles to the WHAS Page, compliments of Bob Walker.  

April 8, 2007

Several WCII Airchecks have been added from the final three days the station was in the country format. Thanks to Jim Barks for these September 1986 recordings of Patsy Simpson, Frank Kinney, Bruce Logan, Chuck Case and Gary Allen.

April 7, 2007

Two good-sized 1973 airchecks from WAVE Radio have been posted: one from Jim Lucas and one from Dick Dick Marendt. But were recorded in-studio and, with the exception of some occassional tape squeal on one of them, sound excellent. We only scoped down the records; all spots and newscasts remain intact. Our appreciation to John Owen for these gems -- as well as for the brief WLOU Aircheck of Ange Canessa.

April 6, 2007

More goodies from John Owen's archives: A special 1991 edition of WAVG's "Your Question Please" hosted by Ed Phillips with past WAVE Radio air personalities, plus an aircheck of Mark Stahr doing the "WMIX thing" on WLRS in 1991.

April 4, 2007

The Duke of Louisville -- a DJ on WHAS? Yep. Bill Bailey filled in for Terry Meiners on August 22, 1988...and we've got the audio proof, thanks to John Owen. Thanks also to John for the 1982 WCII aircheck of Shelby Clark.

April 1, 2007

No fooling -- it's an aircheck of Mark "The Spark" Anderson and "Lean" Dean Taylor on WTMT in October 1991. Thanks to Jim Barks for this slice of Derby City radio history -- and for Parts 3 and 4 of the history of WAVE Radio -- and for an aircheck of the New Year's Day 1991 launch of WLRS' "WMIX" AC format.

Radio Ratings: Who's Hot and Who's Not is a TV Times Vince Staten column from January 1984 that provides an Arbitron snapshot of the Fall 1983 Louisville ratings book. Thanks to Leonard Yates for sending it our way.

March 31, 2007

Part Two of 1991's "The History of WAVE Radio" (airchecked by Jim Barks) is now online here.

March 30, 2007

In the Summer of 1991, WAVG' aired a multi-hour special, "The History of WAVE Radio." A scoped version of the first hour of the special -- which aired over two weekends and was produced by Mark Owen -- can be downloaded here. Thanks to Jim Barks for the 'check.

March 24, 2007

On December 17, 1993, Dick Braun did his last show on WAMZ...and lucky for us, Jim Barks rolled tape on the broadcast. Download this historic aircheck here. 

March 19, 2007

Thanks to Mark Travis for the copy of the early 1970s WHAS jingle package from TM Productions.

March 18, 2007

Lots of goodies have been posted from the archives of Mark Travis. You can now download WAMZ airchecks of Coyote Calhoun and (Mark's alter-ego) Joe Sharkey.

For WHAS, you'll find a 1961 Cawood Ledford interview with Adolph Rupp, an aircheck from Wayne Perkey's first day doing mornings on WHAS (April 7, 1970), a 1971 aircheck of Jerry David Melloy, a couple of Gary Burbank bits from 1979, an April 1989 Terry Meiners aircheck, a 1992 Cawood Ledford horse race retrospective, and an aircheck of how WHAS broke the news of the World Trade Center disaster on September 11, 2001. Plus there's a montage of 1980s-era WHAS jingles and IDs.

March 12, 2007

Radio Daze is a July 1988 Courier-Journal SCENE article that provides details about every AM and FM station in the Louisville market at that time. Thanks to Leonard Yates for sending us this interesting look back at the state of Derby City radio nearly two decades ago.

March 11, 2007

"Music To Listen To Records By" was a double album with three sides of Gary Burbank WHAS bits from 1979. (The fourth side contained a recap of the 1979 WHAS Crusade for Children.) Download the Burbank sides from the Airchecks section of the WHAS Page. Many thanks to Tim Tolbert for making a copy for the LKYRadio archives.

March 9, 2007

Five more Ron Clay & Terry Meiners "Beaver Bits" have been posted on the WQMF Page. Thanks to Terry for sending them our way.

March 7, 2007

A 1967 Dick Wagner and two new Wretched Richard 1979 WINN airchecks have been added, along with some WINN commercials recorded by Dick Braun in the late '60s. Thanks to Leonard Yates for these gems.

March 5, 2007

A second WAVE Photo Page has been added, thanks to material contributed by Jim Barks.

March 4, 2007

Thanks to Jim Barks for sending us the 1986 Courier-Journal article that covered some of the history of WHAS and WAMZ. (It was published the day after the stations' sale to Clear Channel was announced.) Find it here.

Jim also contributed a 1993 C-J article about the retirement of Dick Braun from WAMZ; a photo of WTMT's Mark and Dean from 1992; pics of the WAMZ 1992 airstaff; and some WHAS promotional items.

March 2, 2007

Our very first LKYRadio.com audio interview is now online -- and it's with WHAS PM Driver Terry Meiners. Download it here. A great big 50,000 watt thank you to Terry for his time and memories.

We also posted a set of WVLK "Star Station Breaks" from the early '60s. Mucho gracias to Paul J. Hughes for sending it our way.

February 28, 2007

Two more WLRS airchecks have been added: Lisa Lyons from February 1985 and Dave Lee from March 1986. You'll also find a new December 1991 WRKA aircheck featuring Louisville's own Muhammad Ali. Thanks to Larry Miller for that one.

February 27, 2007

A June 15, 1985 aircheck of Christopher Randolph has been placed on the WKQQ Page. We also added a Brad Hardin aircheck from August 4, 1988 to the WLRS Page.

February 25, 2007

More goodies from Bob Walker: airchecks of a September 1977 "Saturday Night Revival" with Joe Donovan, and Terry Meiners & Company's first show in December 1985. Find them both on the WHAS Airchecks Page.

February 23, 2007

Thanks to Rob Calhoun for the scans of a 1986 WDJX music survey, available here.

February 21, 2007

We have our first WDJX aircheck online -- from the station's first day on the air, as a matter of fact -- so we've made a WDJX Page  to hold it. (Thanks to Bob Walker for the WDJX tape.)

An August 1979 aircheck of Gary Griffin on WKJJ can be downloaded here.

Two WINN airchecks of the late Dick Braun (a 1968 one as "Dick Wagner" and a 1979 'check as "Wretched Richard)) have been added here. Thanks to Leonard Yates for making these available.

February 20, 2007

We added two 1990 airchecks of Leonard Yates on WRKA, courtesy of Bob Walker, plus a December 1985 WHAS "Kentuckiana Flashback" aircheck.

February 19, 2007

In May of 1982 there were 88 DJs working weekdays on Louisville radio. Find out who they were with DJ Dictionary, a Vince Staten article contributed by Leonard Yates.

Another goodie from Bob Walker: an April 15, 1963 WINN Aircheck of Bob Lyons.

February 18, 2007

Thanks to Bob Walker for the 1976 aircheck of WHAS' 54th Anniversary Special "The Birth of a Cuddly Giant." Find it here.

February 14, 2007

Added to the WHAS Page: A 1986 memo from Barry Bingham, Sr. announcing the sale of the Bingham broadcast and newspaper properties, plus a 1984 WHAS Radio playlist. Thanks to Leonard Yates for the scans.

February 13, 2007

A January 1971 aircheck of the WAVE Radio morning news has been added here. 

February 11, 2007

A WRKA Page is now online, thanks to the contribution of several 'RKA airchecks by Gig Herbig, Jr.

Another aircheck of WHAS' Joe Elliott has been added. This one features Johnny Randolph, Leonard Yates, and Clarence Lidster. Thanks to Jim Barks for this goodie...and for the 1987 and 1989 airchecks of WHAS' Terry Meiners.

February 10, 2007

We now have a WFMI Page, thanks to Jim Plummer's info and aircheck.

We've also added a 1976 aircheck of Paul J. Hughes to the WVLK Page, plus some history from Paul about WBLG, WKQQ and WVLK.

February 9, 2007

Thanks to Jim Barks for sending us a 1990 aircheck of a fascinating hour of WHAS' Joe Elliott taking to WAKY's Johnny Randolph and C's Records' Clarence Lidster.

We also posted 1982 airchecks of  Karen Bach at WQMF, Ron & Terry at WLRS, Chuck Brodie at WKJJ and Wayne Perkey at WHAS.

Station pages have been added for Lexington's WAXU and WBLG -- along with some really dreadful airchecks.

February 4, 2007

Several hours of excellent-quality WHAS April 1974 tornado coverage have been added, courtesy of Mark Travis.

February 1, 2007

Thanks to Mark Travis for all of the historic WHAS audio we added today -- and to Jim Plummer for the aircheck of WLAP from 1962.

January 30, 2007

The Monday in 1991 after WQMF AM-drive personality Ron Clay passed away, the station aired a tribute to him with some of his best comedy bits. Thanks to Dave Reichel, you can download most of it from our WQMF Page.

January 28, 2007

Hear how Future Bob sounded in the past (1980 to be exact) in the WLRS aircheck we added today, courtesy Gil Herbig Jr.

Photos have been added to the WHAS, WKJJ and WVEZ pages. A big LKYRadio.com thank you to Mark Strauss and Hutch.

January 24, 2007

Now you can grab the Show With No Name Two Year, Seven Month and Eleven Day Anniversary Special from the WQMF Page. Thanks again to Dave Reichel for this gem.

Also new to the site today: a April 1974 WHAS newscast by Byron Crawford, plus a WLRS Legal ID (date unknown.)

January 22, 2007

Download the Show With No Name One Year Anniversary Special from the WQMF Page, thanks to Dave Reichel.

January 21, 2007

Two 1987 WAVG airchecks of Joe Fletcher have been added to the WAVE Page, courtesy Dave Reichel. Dave also sent us another Ron Clay & Terry Meiners bit for the WQMF Page.

We started a WJYL Page, thanks to Gil Herbig's contribution of a Nancy Edwards aircheck from 1984.

More photos have been added to the WAMZ Page, plus a second WHAS Photo Page has been created because of the image donations by Mark Strauss.

Bill Elliott sent us scans of six TM Stereo Rock reel cue sheets, which we've added to the WQHI Page.

January 20, 2007

We added a 1979 aircheck of Nancy Edwards doing overnights on WKJJ.

January 18, 2007

Hear how WINN and its listeners reacted to the news of Elvis Presley's death in our latest Moon Mullins aircheck on the WINN Page. (It's nearly an hour and three-quarters long.)

Thanks to aircheck submissions from Dave Reichel, we now have a WLRS Page.

January 16, 2007

We've started our LKYRadio.com listing of Louisville and Lexington DJs. Congrats to Carl Blanton for being our first entry.

January 14, 2007

Over a dozen early '70s WINN Newsletters have been added to the WINN Page, courtesy Moon Mullins, along DJ memos from PD Danny King, a 1975 letter to Moon from Buck Owens, and a 1978 WINN Moon Mullins promotional flyer.

Also added: a 1976 Newsletter and Announcers Schedule for WAVE Radio, courtesy Rip Rinehart.

January 13, 2007

We've added a stereo off-the-board recording of Leonard Yates doing "Kentuckiana Flashback" on WHAS on Derby Weekend in 1985.

Check out the WINN Page for two 1975 C-J articles that feature Dickie Braun, Al Risen and Moon Mullins. We also added a second WINN Photo Page, thanks to the image contributions from Moon Mullins...plus a 1976 WINN survey.

January 12, 2007

We're now set up to receive donations through PayPal. If you'd like to help us with Website expenses, look for the "Make a Donation" button on the home page.

Thanks to Jack Gallo for sending us an aircheck of his 1976 WAVE work...and to Bill Elliott for sending us scans of a WQHI sales kit that should be very interesting for all Hi95 fans.

January 11, 2007

Our appreciation to Tim Tolbert for the 1979 WHAS aircheck of Joe Donovan doing the "Saturday Night Revival," and to Moon Mullins for the 1972 "Metz Here" recording of the tail end of what was probably a very fascinating show with several Louisville PDs. (Anybody have a tape of the whole thing?) Find them here.

January 10, 2007

Three more WINN airchecks have been posted: two of Moon Mullins from 1971, and one of Bucks Braun from 1974.

January 8, 2007

Thanks to Jim Plummer for the WVLK Control Room photos...and to former WINN PD Moon Mullins for sending us a bunch of his 1240 airchecks to share with the world. Find them on the WINN Page, of course. More from the Moon man to come!

January 7, 2007

"My heart is breakin' honey, but I sure am makin' money!" is the 1976 Louisville Times Scene article we just posted on the Louisville Radio Ink Page about the state of country music -- and country radio in the Derby City -- in the bicentennial year.

We also added a WLAP '60s DJ Page.

January 6, 2007

Thanks to Carl Blanton for sending us more images for WINN plus WAVE, WHAS and WAMZ.

Our Louisville Radio Ink Page now sports a Louisville Magazine article on the state of Derby City broadcasting from September of 1981. Our appreciation to Rip Rinehart for passing it along.

January 5, 2007

More pics have been added to the WINN Page, courtesy Carl Blanton (who was "Jason Williams" on WINN). We also posted a MP3 of WINN's 1969 custom Atwood-Richards jingle package.

January 3, 2007

Mucho gracias to Tim Tolbert who sent us some WHAS and WAMZ photos.

You can now hear an aircheck of the remark morning drive jock Bill Crisp made on WLAP in 1970 that caused him to lose his job there. Find it on the WLAP-AM Page.

Barry Fox sent us a 1988 WLAP-FM composite, which we've posted on the brand spankin' new WLAP-FM page.

Two more 1966 airchecks of Burt Mathis from WINN's short-lived Top 40 days have been added here. Burt, of course, became "Weird Beard" at WAKY in November of that year.

Thanks to Jim Barks, we now have WINN year-end surveys from 1974 and 1975.

January 2, 2007

We added the Louisville Radio Ink Page, which contains a collection of newspaper articles about classic Derbytown radio.

January 1, 2007

LKYRadio.com is officially "open for business!" Special thanks to Bill Elliott, Mark Travis, Rip Rinehart, Alan White, Rob Calhoun, Jim Hicks, Megan Chaplin and Tim Tolbert for their contributions of information and content.