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Saving Stories remembers WUKY's first broadcast day

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Ruth Foxx Newborg and Elmer 'Bromo' Sulzer going over plans for the first broadcast over WBKY in Beattyville, Ky.
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Ruth Foxx Newborg and Elmer 'Bromo' Sulzer going over plans for the first broadcast over WBKY in Beattyville, Ky.

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. To mark the station's 85th anniversary, this special edition of Saving Stories with Dr. Doug Boyd from the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History in the UK Libraries, features an interview with Ruth Foxx Newborg, the first program director of the Beattyville, KY radio station.