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Alan Lytle

News Director

Alan Lytle has more than 25 years of experience as a Kentucky broadcaster. Over that span he has earned multiple awards for anchoring, writing and producing news & features for WUKY. He took home the Kentucky Broadcasters Association's Best Radio Anchor award in 2021.

Lytle has served as News Director for Lexington's NPR News Station since 2002.

Bitten by the radio bug as a teenager, Alan got his start 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.

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.

  • WUKY's Saving Stories commemorates the sixtieth anniversary of the March for Civil Rights in Frankfort. On March 5, 1964 thousands came to Kentucky's Capitol to hear from Martin Luther King, baseball great Jackie Robinson, folk group Peter, Paul and Mary, and rally support for a public accommodations bill. In this segment we hear distinctly different perspectives from two Kentuckians and their respective experiences that historic day.
  • Tuesday March 5th will be a historic day in Frankfort as hundreds are expected to gather at the State Capitol to commemorate the sixtieth anniversary of the 1964 Freedom March for Civil Rights. WUKY’s Alan Lytle spoke with Frankfort community organizer Katima Smith Willis and film producer/historian Joanna Hay, two members of the group Focus on Race Relations, which is helping to organize the day’s events, including a march and commemorative program featuring several guest speakers and an appearance by Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear.
  • After Tuesday there are only 20 days remaining in the 2024 Legislative Session. Laura Cullen Glasscock, editor and publisher of the Frankfort-based Kentucky Gazette shares insights on some bills that still may manage to pass both chambers before the April 15th deadline. One in particular, the so-called source of income bill has already done that and is awaiting conference committee action.
  • The University of Kentucky is commemorating the 75th anniversary of the desegregation of its campus. In our latest edition of Saving Stories, Dr. Doug Boyd with the UK Libraries Nunn Center for Oral History shares audio from a series of interviews with Lyman T. Johnson; the first African-American student to set foot on the UK campus.
  • The University of Kentucky is commemorating the 75th anniversary of the desegregation of its campus. In our latest edition of Saving Stories, Dr. Doug Boyd with the UK Libraries Nunn Center for Oral History shares audio from a series of interviews with Lyman T. Johnson; the first African-American student to set foot on the UK campus. Johnson successfully challenged a state law that prohibited students of different races to be educated together in the same classroom. The university had been getting around the 'Day Law' by sending professors to the Kentucky State University campus in Frankfort to instruct African-American students. That all changed with Johnson in 1949.
  • Laura Cullen Glasscock, editor and publisher of the Frankfort-based Kentucky Gazette talks about proposed legislation affecting Kentucky's existing Open Records law and the pushback House Bill 509 has already received.
  • In a special edition of WUKY's Saving Stories Nunn Center Director Doug Boyd shares interviews detailing the stories of two Kentucky couples and one lawyer who were part of the legal fight that led to the Supreme Court–and brought marriage equality to the country. The conversations come from the John G. Heyburn II Initiative for Excellence in the Federal Judiciary Project archived by Anu Kasarabada and the Nunn Center's Outsouth: LGBTQ+ Oral History Project. The interviews are also featured in the latest episode of the Nunn Center's "The Wisdom Project" podcast.
  • In a special edition of WUKY's Saving Stories Nunn Center Director Doug Boyd shares interviews detailing the stories of two Kentucky couples and one lawyer who were part of the legal fight that led to the Supreme Court–and brought marriage equality to the country. The conversations come from the John G. Heyburn II Initiative for Excellence in the Federal Judiciary Project archived by Anu Kasarabada and the Nunn Center's Outsouth: LGBTQ+ Oral History Project. The interviews are also featured in the latest episode of the Nunn Center's "The Wisdom Project" podcast.
  • Laura Cullen Glasscock with the Kentucky Gazette updates us on some high profile, and under the radar bills making their way through the General Assembly.
  • This week on Saving Stories Dr. Doug Boyd, director of the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History in the UK Libraries highlights an interview with Jim Green, the first African-American student-athlete to graduate from UK. In the conversation Green talks about his decision to enroll at the state’s flagship university in the late 1960’s, what it was like competing in the racially-charged Southeastern conference, his role in desegregating the track program, and how he’d like to be remembered by future generations.