Kevin McCarthy
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2:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.

I grew up in the St. Louis metro area, more specifically, in a small town north of Alton, Illionis named Shipman. My earliest memories of St. Louis are the Christmas windows at Famous Barr, and Styx Baer & Fuller.

At the age of ten I asked for, and got a tape-recorder for Christmas.

My friends and I would practice for hours trying to be a DJ, so I guess that started my interest in radio. After serving three years in the U.S. Army, I began a career in the finance business. In 1972, while working in Waterloo, IA., I was able to get a part-time job working weekends at KCFI, and the radio "bug" was in my blood. When I transferred to Springfield, IL, I worked part-time at WCVS and WMAY. I came back to St. Louis in 1975, and immediately found a part-time slot at KIRL.

In 1976 I went to the "St. Louis Super Q," KSLQ (now Y-98). 1979 found me at KADI (now K-HITS 96FM). In 1980, I hung my hat at KS-94 (now KSD-FM) and in 1981, I quit the finance business to go to work for CBS Radio, at KMOX-FM. We soon changed to HIT RADIO 103, KHTR, and then OLDIES 103, KLOU. While at CBS, I also worked at KMOX-AM as a producer, newsman, traffic reporter, & talk show host. I have now been at K-HITS 96FM for almost two years doing the afternoon show, playing my favorite type of music, the music I started with, the "GREATEST HITS OF THE 70s." Some of the highlights of my radio career include broadcasting live from the Royal Wedding of Prince Andrew & "Fergie" in London. Being invited to the Montreaux Rock Festival, Montreaux, Switzerland to represent American radio for five years in a row. I have also been an invited guest and featured speaker at the MIDEM Conference in Cannes, France on four occasions, as well as a quest panelist and speaker at the International Music & Media Conference in Amsterdam, Holland. I have also worked for the VOICE OF AMERICA for more than ten years. I hosted a daily syndicated show called "RADIO REMEMBERS" for more than five years, as well as a foreign correspondent. I did a show from Berlin, Germany the night the "wall" came down. I did reports for VOA from Berlin, Prague, Budapest, and Warsaw in conjunction with CBS. I reported on the first "Provide Hope Food Flight" into Moscow, and later returned to Moscow, and planted a tree from George Washington's revolutionary headquarters on the Russian Whitehorse lawn. I did three days of reports from Saudi Arabia, during "Operation Desert Shield." I also helped coordinate the first International tree planting in Arlington National Cemetery.

I feel that radio has an inherited responsibility to serve its listeners, be it through entertainment, education, and/or public service. I have always tried to help my listeners in any way I can.

Over the years I have organized benefit concerts, food drives for flood victims here, and elsewhere, as well as many other public service events. I stay as active as possible in community service organizations, and regularly work with MADD, March of Dimes, Diabetes Assc. MS Society, Daughters of St. Paul, and the Salvation Army.

I also do free-lance voice work throughout the U.S. and Europe. My wife and I have lived in St. Charles with our two cats for more than twenty years. "Life is good-I love radio."

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