Kevin McCarthy (radio)
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Kevin McCarthy has been a radio-television personality in north Texas since Gordon McLendon brought him to Dallas as part of the original staff of KNUS/99 in 1972. He spent 14 years as a top-rated talk show host on KLIF before leaving in 2001 to start his own business, a multi-media marketing company.
He is the "Trusty Sidekick" co-host with Jerry Reynolds on the Car Pro Show (http://carprousa.com) on WBAP 820 AM and 1080 AM KRLD in Dallas/Ft. Worth, 89 WLS Chicago, KTRH 640 AM Houston, 1200 WOAI AM San Antonio, 590 KLBJ AM Austin, 570 KLAC AM Los Angeles, KNEW 960 AM San Francisco, 1530 AM KFBK & 650 KSTE AM in Sacramento, KFYI 1230 AM Phoenix, KEX 1190 AM Portland, WTAM 1100 AM Cleveland, and over 2 dozen other cities. He also does voice-overs for commercials, industrial videos and documentaries; represented by the Mary Collins Agency in Dallas.
McCarthy developed his love for conversation while growing up working behind the soda fountain in his father's drugstore just down the street from the courthouse in Barbourville, Kentucky.
McCarthy was a charter inductee into the Texas Radio Hall of Fame in 2002, a five–time winner of the Dallas Press Club's "Katy" award for Best Talk Show in Texas and the 1995 American Women in Radio & Television's Dallas-Fort Worth Radio Personality of the Year. He was the Reunion Arena Voice of the Dallas Mavericks for 20 years.
His wife, Yvonne, is an internationally ranked photographer/digital artist and a former symphony cellist. They live in suburban Dallas with their five rescue cats and one rescue dog.