Kevin McCarthy (radio)

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Kevin McCarthy has been a radio-tv personality in north Texas since Gordon McLendon brought him to Dallas as part of the original staff of KNUS/99 in 1972. In 2004 and part of 2005 he was featured on KFCD/990 AM. Currently, he is host of Dallas Digest (http://www.dallasdigest.com/), an Internet news and message board (http://dallasdigest.mywowbb.com/forum2/recent.html). He is also the "loyal sidekick" on the Jerry Reynolds Auto Advice show (http://carguyshow.com/) on WBAP/820 AM radio (http://wbap.com/).

Related Topics:
Radio - Tv - Personality - Texas - Gordon McLendon - Dallas - 1972 - 2004 - AM

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McCarthy developed his love for conversation while growing up working behind the soda fountain in his father?s drugstore just down the street from the courthouse in a small town in southeastern Kentucky.

Related Topics:
Soda fountain - Drugstore - Courthouse - Kentucky

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McCarthy was a charter inductee into the Texas Radio Hall of Fame in 2002, a five?time winner of the Dallas Press Club?s ?Katy? award for Best Talk Show in Texas and the 1995 American Women in Radio & Television?s Dallas-Fort Worth Radio Personality of the Year. He was the Reunion Arena Voice of the Dallas Mavericks for 20 years.

Related Topics:
Texas Radio Hall of Fame - 2002 - 1995 - Fort Worth - Dallas Mavericks - 20 - Year

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His wife, Yvonne, is an internationally ranked photographer/digital artist, a former symphony cellist and the ?voice? of 990 MainStreet Radio.

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