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 week on Open Studio Tom Musgrave welcomes Dr. Everett McCorvey. The long-time director of UK Opera Theatre talks about "It's a Grand Night for Singing" which opens its two weekend run this Friday June 13th. -
PodcastsLloyd Gardner has had an amazing career in basketball, and is still active today. He is a member of the Kentucky Sports Hall of Fame and the Kentucky High School Athletic Association Hall of Fame. He coached Fairdale High School to the 1994 boys state championship, and was an assistant on two other championship teams at Fairdale. He organized and continues to coordinate the King of the Bluegrass Tournament, one of the leading high school tournaments in the country since he started it in 1981. Before all that, he was the trainer, equipment manager and traveling secretary of the Kentucky Colonels, who won the ABA championship 50 years ago. He talks about it all on this edition of the WUKY SportsPage. -
PodcastsWe recently observed World Hearing Month. The World Health Organization Office of Prevention of Blindness and Deafness would like to raise awareness of how to prevent deafness and hearing loss and promote hearing and ear health across the world. Dr. Greg talks all things hearing with local audiologist Karah Gottschalk. -
WUKY launches a new weekly Arts feature we're calling Open Studio. Lori Meadows of Kentuckians for the Arts details how arts groups across the state are dealing with the loss of National Endowment for the Arts grants. -
PodcastsThis Saturday June 7 from 9am to 1pm, at Frederick Douglass High School, Truck-A-Palooza will bring folks up close and personal with the employees and trucks of our city that keep us operating smoothly on a daily basis. The first two hours of the event (9a - 11a) will be reserved for those with sensory issues. Dr. Greg talks about this increasingly popular trend with Angela Poe, senior program manager for the city of Lexington and for Environmental Quality and Public Works. -
Back in late December of 2024, we were starting to hear about all the plans that the city was cooking up to celebrate Lexington's 250th anniversary in 2025. As of June, we're coming up on the halfway point in the year-long calendar. So WUKY’s Alan Lytle recently rang up 250 Lex Co-Chair Kip Cornett to find out how things are going so far and to get a preview of the next couple of months ahead. -
PodcastsIt's officially Pride Month and Lex Talk History is back with a fresh episode examining Kentucky's long, storied, and often under-told LGBTQ history. Alan and Mandy welcome back Josh Porter from the Faulkner Morgan Archive to talk about the Queer, Here, & Everywhere exhibit now on display at the downtown branch of the Lexington Public Library. They also discuss a number of upcoming 250 Lex events to celebrate homecoming month. -
PodcastsNeural connections rapidly develop in early childhood, but the brain continues to grow and refine these connections throughout our lives, even into older adulthood. That's why enriching experiences — such as traveling, socializing, education, and exercise — are particularly impactful for the brain and need to keep happening throughout our lives. Staying engaged is the topic of discussion this week on Dr. Greg Davis on Medicine. Elizabeth Rhodus, Ph.D., is an occupational therapist and assistant professor in UK’s Sanders-Brown Center on Aging. -
PodcastsEach semester, emergency medicine residents at UK HealthCare participate in Wilderness Medical Day. It’s a day dedicated to learning and practicing skills that are needed in a wilderness emergency. Dr. Greg talks with Dr. Blake Davidson, UK College of Medicine assistant program director, emergency medicine residency about the unique challenges emergency personnel face in remote locations where time is of the essence. -
PodcastsLex Talk History, the official podcast of the Lexington History Museum, goes from "All Things LaFayette" to a seldom told aspect of life in the Mary Todd Lincoln House. This bonus May edition features Gwen Thompson, executive director of the historic childhood home of the former First Lady. She and Mandy discuss some of the people that too often history leaves out of the grand narrative; especially poignant with Lexington's 250th anniversary upon us. One person in particular was an enslaved servant named Chaney Dickerson. It's a fascinating conversation you won't want to miss.
