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Message from former WKIC announcer Max Smith Hugh Dunbar's "Man On The Street" program came on for 15 minutes every day at 12:30. My shift on WKIC started at 12:00 so I got to listen to Hugh every day. I probably listened to three to four hundred of his programs during my time at the station. Hugh always did a decent job and his programs were interesting.  Russell Leveridge was a favorite of mine at the station. He had a voice the reminds me of Jim Reeves. I remember he came in one Sunday before his program and he had just heard a song that he liked and asked me to play it for him.. It was George Morgan's "Room Full Of Roses" I played it over and over until he learned it and then he sang it it on that days' program.. Max "Don" Smith  January 2011

My entire childhood was wrapped around WKIC. We listened to Gabriel Heater, Country Boy Feltner sold us houses full of furniture for three hundred dollars, we went to Taulbee Furniture Company for live shows, I sung 'Boogerman in the Bushes,' we learned about Hadicol and the benefits of drinking good 'ol cabbage juice, and who can forget the poor 'ol woman who washed and washed until she broke her back?  The Singing Miner gave us all this. Your radio station gave us the Adventures of Princess Pet, Brown Mule and Brown Bear...Lamont Cranston and the Shadow...ah, WKIC has been there all the way."  Helen Chaney, Hazard, KY

WKIC was so much a part of my teen years.  I was interviewed by 'The Man on the Street', sang daily with 'The Singing Miner', and was entertained by the announcers who were masters at their work, and I remember 'The Shadow', 'The Lone Ranger', etc. in the evenings while I was supposed to be getting my homework." Ida Lee Hansel, Spartanburg, SC

I don't remember any of the programs during the day but I did listen to Kentucky basketball games at home.  Jack (Don) Gross, Huntsville, AL 

I had a small radio behind the counter at my family's store, Reda Grocery on Main Street.  I loved to listen to the musical programs, especially the requests that listeners would make to hear or dedicate a certain song to someone.  Billie Reda Sowers Dayton, OH

I remember Jerry Leighton had a Saturday morning Man of the Street program in front of Bible's Market on Main Street in Hazard.  He would ask a question to a person, and if no one answered the question it carried over to the next Saturday and the amount of free groceries would add up.  I remember his dark hair and wonderful smile and personality.  Thanks, for your website and I feel like I am back in the 40's and 50's again.  Connie Pickett Caldwell, Hartford, Illinois

I grew up listening to Bobby Benson and Straight Arrow from the late 40s to mid 50s.  Sure do miss those old shows.  Bob Mineer, Maysville, KY

As a child I listened to half-hour radio shows like "The Shadow," "Sergeant Preston and The Royal Mounted Police," "Straight Arrow," and "Bobby Benson and the B Bar B Riders." Commercial jingles, like that for Nabisco Shredded Wheat, the sponsor for "Straight Arrow," still remain in my ear.  Anonymous

I grew up in Hazard, KY in the 40s and 50s.  I also listened to 'Sgt. Preston of the Yukon', 'Hop-A-Long Cassidy', 'The Roy Rogers Show' and I believe that these shows probably had some influence in molding our character.  The shows always made us want to on the right side of the law and that crime does not pay. However, my very earliest memories of WKIC was watching my Aunt Theona place her hands on the radio to feel the vibration as her brothers, Grover Hurt and Curtis Hurt along with Corbet "Dewdrop" Grigsby plunked their banjos and guitar and sang such tunes as 'Pretty Polly' and 'Barbara Allen'. I really have enjoyed visiting this web site."  Carol Jones Staten, Dayton, OH

I remember the contest held at the station for the best sounding caller of the Phillip Morris slogan, in the late 40's, 'Call for Phillip Morris.'  Do we have a winner?  Angelene Boyas North, Bradenton, FL  

I remember a program called "The Dinner Bell Roundup."  Tony Greer.  

I remember the Singing Miner singing Boogerman in the Bushes and his wife Daisy singing Weeping Willow.  I listened to Second Spring on WKIC, my first soap opera.  Anonymous

I listened to Tell Your Neighbor, a daily 15 minute program with Walter Mason.  He would read letters and stories shared by listeners and prizes were awarded to the ones they used.  I also remember the 15 minute program, "Behind the Story" with Marvin Miller on WKIC.  Robert Carrol.