Alan Lytle
News DirectorBitten by the radio bug as a teenager, Alan Lytle got his start start more than 30 years ago volunteering in Clermont County, Ohio for WOBO-FM. He graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Broadcasting from the University of Cincinnati and worked at a variety of radio stations in the Cincinnati market, then made the move to Lexington in the mid-1990s.
Lytle has served as WUKY News Director since 2002 and is the recipient of numerous Associated Press, CASE, and Communicator awards. He took home Kentucky Broadcasters Association's Best Radio Anchor award in 2021. When not covering news, Lytle enjoys cheering on the Wildcats (and Bearcats) and tooling Lexington's streets and backroads in his snazzy 2011 Nissan Juke.
Passionate about history, Lytle serves on the board of the Lexington History Museum. He obtained a Master’s degree in U.S. History from the University of Kentucky in 2015.
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If you are a political junky in Kentucky then Graves County is the place to be this weekend as the annual Fancy Farm Picnic at St. Jerome’s Parish ushers in the campaign season with speeches, jabs and sometimes out of bounds attacks. Will that be the case this year given all of the devastation and flood cleanup on the other side of the state? For a preview we turn to Laura Cullen Glasscock, she’s the editor and publisher of the Frankfort-based Kentucky Gazette. -
A cultural center known for chronicling Appalachian life is cleaning up and assessing its losses. Like much of its stricken region, Appalshop has been swamped by historic flooding. The water inundated downtown Whitesburg in southeastern Kentucky, causing extensive damage to the renowned repository of Appalachian history and culture. Some losses are likely permanent, after raging waters soaked or swept away some of Appalshop’s treasure trove of historic material. Dr. Doug Boyd, director of the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History and colleagues from the UK Libraries traveled this week to Appalshop to help save as many irreplaceable materials as possible. In this special edition of WUKY’s award winning history program Saving Stories, Doug talks about the devastation he saw and highlights the special relationship the Nunn Center has with Appalshop.
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More than 500 businesses and individuals from our area are already registered to participate in the city’s most inclusive business networking event, which is celebrating 20 years. Here's a preview of this week’s Lexington Bluegrass Area Minority Business Expo.
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WoodSongs is once again holding an instrument drive to replace those lost by musicians during the recent floods in eastern Kentucky.
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The WoodSongs Old Time Radio Hour will continue to emanate from the Lyric Theatre in Lexington’s historic East End neighborhood for at least the next 5 years. Mayor Linda Gorton, folksinger Michael Johnathon and the Lyric’s Theatre and Cultural Arts Center Executive Director Whit Whitaker on Wednesday announced a renewal of the partnership that’s been in place since the program relocated from the Kentucky Theatre in 2013.
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Lexington Mayor Linda Gorton says the city continues to offer up help to hard hit areas of eastern Kentucky. WUKY's Alan Lytle has details.
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He’s arguably the most famous and infamous occupant of the historic Hopemont House and a new mini-exhibit by the Blue Grass Trust for Historic Preservation addresses the controversy of John Hunt Morgan who conducted numerous Civil War raids into the North from his home base here in Lexington. WUKY's Alan Lytle recently took the tour and spoke with outreach coordinator Jackson Osborne and the trust's executive director Jonathan Coleman.
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The fifth floor of UK Chandler Hospital Pavilion A will soon be home to patients recovering from a variety of neurologic conditions including stroke, ALS and epilepsy. WUKY’s Alan Lytle has details.
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It's Pride Month and WUKY's award winning history segment Saving Stories marks the milestone with a look back at the brief but impactful run of Cafe LMNOP; a popular nightspot which was located near the UK campus. Doug Boyd with the Nunn Center for Oral History in the UK Libraries shares an interview with the club's brainchild Bradley Pickelsimer.
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Today marks the 50th anniversary of the federal civil rights law known as Title IX which changed the game for women’s college athletics. Back in the spring of 2021, as part of our salute to Women's History Month, WUKY’s Award Winning History program, Saving Stories, featured an interview with Sue Feamster, the UK women’s basketball team’s first varsity coach. We're revisiting that segment with Dr. Doug Boyd from the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History in the UK Libraries.
