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Kevin McCarthy
[email protected]
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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