Summary
Kevin McCarthy is an American radio-television personality in north Texas. He was part of the original staff of KNUS/99, being brought to the station by Gordon McLendon in 1972.[1] After a 2-year stint at the legendary KFRC in San Francisco and 3 years as a sports anchor/reporter at the CBS-TV Station in Dallas, he spent fourteen years as a top-rated talk show host on KLIF before leaving in 2001 to start his own business, a multi-media marketing company.[2]
He has been the "Trusty Sidekick" co-host with Jerry Reynolds on the Car Pro Show syndicated in over two dozen cities for the past 21 years. He also does voice-overs for commercials, industrial videos and documentaries.
McCarthy was inducted into the Texas Radio Hall of Fame in 2002.[3] He is a five–time winner of the Press Club of Dallas "Katie" award for "Best Talk Show" in Texas and the 1995 American Women in Radio & Television's Dallas-Fort Worth Radio Personality of the Year.[4] He also served as the public address announcer for the Dallas Mavericks for twenty years until February 2000.[2][5]
McCarthy is divorced and resides in Plano, Texas, a suburb north of Dallas.
References edit
- ^ "DFWRETROPLEX.COM - MIKE SHANNON'S HISTORY OF DFW RADIO/TV".
- ^ a b Celeste, Eric (May 11, 2000). "Last call". Dallas Observer. Retrieved November 29, 2018.
- ^ Philpot, Robert (October 7, 2002). "The greats of local airwaves get kudos". Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Archived from the original on October 31, 2002. Retrieved November 29, 2018.
- ^ American Women in Radio and Television (AWRT) Archives, University of Maryland Libraries
- ^ Patterson, Randall (March 5, 2000). "The Idled Workaholic". The New York Times. Retrieved November 29, 2018.
External links edit
- Texas Radio Hall of Fame