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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It's Olympics time again and in this edition of WUKY's Saving Stories we hear from NBC Olympics sportscaster and native Lexingtonian Tom Hammond. Doug Boyd, director of the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History in the UK Libraries shares audio from an interview with Hammond. He talks about one his most memorable moments from the 2000 games in Sydney, Australia. Aboriginal sprinter Cathy Freeman first had the honor of lighting the Olympic torch to open the games, then ten nights later she won 400 meters gold in a most dramatic fashion. Hammond, who called the action in 13 Olympic Games, was behind the microphone that historic day. -
PodcastsIt's Olympics time again and in this edition of WUKY's Saving Stories we hear from NBC Olympics sportscaster and native Lexingtonian Tom Hammond. Doug Boyd, director of the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History in the UK Libraries shares audio from an interview with Hammond. He talks about one his most memorable moments from the 2000 games in Sydney, Australia. Aboriginal sprinter Cathy Freeman first had the honor of lighting the Olympic torch to open the games, then ten nights later she won 400 meters gold in a most dramatic fashion. Hammond, who called the action in 13 Olympic Games, was behind the microphone that historic day.
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This Thursday marks the 80th anniversary of the D-Day invasion in Normandy, France. Doug Boyd from the Nunn Center for Oral History in the UK Libraries shares audio from a 1994 interview with Garrard County native Jesse Beazley who was among the first wave of soldiers that fought their way onto Omaha Beach that fateful day. -
PodcastsThis Thursday marks the 80th anniversary of the D-Day invasion in Normandy, France. Doug Boyd from the Nunn Center for Oral History in the UK Libraries shares audio from a 1994 interview with Garrard County native Jesse Beazley who was among the first wave of soldiers that fought their way onto Omaha Beach that fateful day.
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Author and historian H.W. Brands has tackled subjects from just about every era of our nation’s history. Chances are you've seen him in a variety of programs on the History channel, C-Span and other platforms. This Thursday June 6, Brands will be in Lexington at Ashland, the Henry Clay Estate for a ticketed event co-sponsored by Kentucky Book Festival, Kentucky Humanities and the Henry Clay Memorial Foundation. H.W. will be talking about his book, Founding Partisans: Hamilton, Madison, Jefferson, Adams and the Brawling Birth of American politics. WUKY's Alan Lytle recently spoke with Brands for a preview. -
PodcastsTo kick off Pride Month WUKY's Alan Lytle and Lexington History Museum Executive Director Mandy Higgins welcome Jonathan Coleman and Josh Porter of the Faulkner Morgan Archive which is celebrating its 10th year as THE repository for Kentucky’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and queer history. We also discuss the 25th anniversary of Lexington's successful passage of a Fairness Ordinance, and finish up with a preview of this year's Pride Festival in Lexington. -
Last week, the general manager of Good Foods Co-op resigned. Dean Sparks was hired two months ago, after a national search. As WUKY's Alan Lytle reports the financially troubled co-op is turning in-house to name a replacement. Holly Deering had served as interim GM during the Co-op’s initial search; now, Good Foods will make her position permanent. -
Ahead of next week's Kentucky primary, three days of early no-excuse in person voting starts this Thursday. In this week's edition of Capitol Chat WUKY's Alan Lytle and Kentucky Gazette editor and publisher Laura Cullen Glasscock discuss a number of competitive legislative races Lexington area Republicans and Democrats will decide. -
PodcastsMay is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month and we're shining the spotlight on a series of events in Lexington. HAAPI - Heritage of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders festival kicks off Friday night May 3rd from 6 to 9 pm at Moondance Amphitheatre at Midnight Pass. Lexington Vice Mayor Dan Wu and Ellen Sam, one of the first Asians to serve in the Lexington Police Department, share their stories with history museum executive director Dr. Amanda Higgins and WUKY's Alan Lytle. They also talk about the rich and significant history of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in Lexington. -
Over our 15-year collaboration with the UK Libraries’ Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, WUKY’s Saving Stories has brought you numerous Kentucky Derby themed segments featuring the likes of Eddie Arcaro, Penny Chenery, W.T. Young and Arthur B. Hancock III. This week to celebrate Derby 150, Center Director Doug Boyd and Alan Lytle continue that tradition by returning to a 2019 interview with another story by Hancock. In this part of the conversation the Stone Farm horse breeder and owner talks about how he used the Pythagorean theorem to calculate the perfect ride for eventual winner Gato Del Sol in the 1982 Kentucky Derby. Until that day no horse from the far outside had ever won the signature race. It's a similar scenario 5-2 morning line favorite Fierceness is facing this Saturday.
