Alan Lytle
News DirectorAlan 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.
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This month marks the two-year anniversary of the tornadoes that struck and devastated parts of Western Kentucky. On the evening of December 10th and into the next morning, a high EF-4 tornado directly hit the historic downtown center of Mayfield, KY. Of the 74 people who lost their lives in Kentucky that evening, 24 resided in Graves County, where Mayfield is located. In this edition of Saving Stories, center director Dr. Doug Boyd highlights two people who were interviewed in the follow-up round of the Mayfield, Kentucky 2021 Tornado Oral History Project; a partnership with Dr. Rebecca Freihaut. Tanna Thompson and Casey Jones talk about their ongoing struggles and hopes on their long journey of restoration. -
This month marks the two-year anniversary of the tornadoes that struck and devastated parts of Western Kentucky. On the evening of December 10th and into the next morning, a high EF-4 tornado directly hit the historic downtown center of Mayfield, KY. Of the 74 people who lost their lives in Kentucky that evening, 24 resided in Graves County, where Mayfield is located. In this edition of Saving Stories, center director Dr. Doug Boyd highlights two people who were interviewed in the follow-up round of the Mayfield, Kentucky 2021 Tornado Oral History Project; a partnership with Dr. Rebecca Freihaut. Tanna Thompson and Casey Jones talk about their ongoing struggles and hopes on their long journey of restoration.
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December 10 & 11 marked the two year anniversary of the tornadoes that struck and devastated parts of Western Kentucky. On that evening, into the next morning, a high EF-4 tornado directly hit the historic downtown center of Mayfield, KY. Of the 74 people who lost their lives in Kentucky that evening, 24 resided in Graves County, where Mayfield is located. In this edition of Saving Stories, center director Dr. Doug Boyd highlights one of the 22 interviews from the Mayfield, Kentucky 2021 Tornado Oral History Project; a partnership with Dr. Rebecca Freihaut.
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December 10 & 11 marked the two year anniversary of the tornadoes that struck and devastated parts of Western Kentucky. On that evening, into the next morning, a high EF-4 tornado directly hit the historic downtown center of Mayfield, KY. Of the 74 people who lost their lives in Kentucky that evening, 24 resided in Graves County, where Mayfield is located. In this edition of Saving Stories, center director Dr. Doug Boyd highlights one of the 22 interviews conducted from the Mayfield, Kentucky 2021 Tornado Oral History Project; a partnership with Dr. Rebecca Freihaut.
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In this special post-election edition of WUKY's Capitol Chat, Kentucky Gazette editor and publisher Laura Cullen Glasscock gives her take on Governor Beshear's electoral victory in the face of near total Republican dominance of Kentucky politics. -
Officials and stakeholders call it a development some 25 years in the making and proof of a promise kept. On Wednesday the Community Land Trust – a non-profit affordable housing advocacy group - formed during the Newtown Pike construction project, which displaced nearly the entire Davis Bottoms neighborhood, broke ground on a new community center to be located adjacent to the new Davis Park. WUKY's Alan Lytle has details. -
A Lexington teacher got the surprise of his life on Friday. Jacob Ball, who teaches agriculture at the Carter G. Woodson Academy, took his seat for what he thought was a schoolwide assembly. Little did he know his fellow teachers and students and Lieutenant Governor Jacqueline Coleman were there to watch him receive a national award as a Milken Educator; complete with a life-size check for $25,000. -
This week on Capitol Chat: Beshear v. Cameron - who was helped or hurt by five gubernatorial debatesThe final debate gubernatorial debate between Daniel Cameron and Andy Beshear took place Tuesday night. It was hosted by the League of Women Voters and WKYT TV in Lexington. 5 times these candidates faced each other on a stage or in a TV studio so we asked Kentucky Gazette editor and publisher Laura Cullen Glasscock which candidate benefited most from the forums? -
October 17 is an important day in the history of WUKY. The station formerly known as WBKY signed on for the first time on October 17, 1940. In 2015 to mark the station's 75th anniversary, we produced a special edition of Saving Stories with Dr. Doug Boyd from the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History in the UK Libraries. By the way the Nunn Center is celebrating it's 50th anniversary in 2023. -
October is national domestic violence awareness month and WUKY is joining in the effort to publicize a relatively new city-wide, multi-media, multi-platform campaign called “It’s Time.” We’ve been talking with two members of the Domestic and Sexual Violence Prevention Coalition Stephanie Theakston and Diane Fleet – with assistance from Lillie Ruschell of Mahan productions. Part of the It’s Time initiative includes a series of podcasts featuring everyday folks tackling the once taboo subject.
