Kevin McCarthy (radio)

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Kevin McCarthy is an American radio-television personality in north Texas. He was part of the original staff of KNUS/99, being brought to the station by Gordon McLendon in 1972. [1] After a 2-year stint at the legendary KFRC in San Francisco and 3 years as a sports anchor/reporter at the CBS-TV Station in Dallas, he spent fourteen years as a top-rated talk show host on KLIF before leaving in 2001 to start his own business, a multi-media marketing company. [2]

He has been the "Trusty Sidekick" co-host with Jerry Reynolds on the Car Pro Show syndicated in over two dozen cities for the past 21 years. He also does voice-overs for commercials, industrial videos and documentaries.

McCarthy was inducted into the Texas Radio Hall of Fame in 2002. [3] He is a five–time winner of the Press Club of Dallas "Katie" award for "Best Talk Show" in Texas and the 1995 American Women in Radio & Television's Dallas-Fort Worth Radio Personality of the Year. [4] He also served as the public address announcer for the Dallas Mavericks for twenty years until February 2000. [2] [5]

McCarthy is divorced and resides in Plano, Texas, a suburb north of Dallas.

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