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. He spent 14 years as a top-rated talk show host on KLIF before leaving in 2001 to start his own business. Kevin had a series of problems before leaving KLIF, with published reports questioning his psychological makeup. 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 "trusty sidekick" on the Jerry Reynolds Auto Advice show (http://carguyshow.com/) on WBAP/820 AM radio (http://wbap.com/).
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.
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.
His wife, Yvonne, is an internationally ranked photographer/digital artist and a former symphony cellist. They live in suburban Dallas with their six cats.
