Kevin McCarthy
Kevin McCarthy has been a radio-tv personality in North Texas since Gordon McLendon brought him to Dallas as part of the original staff of KNUS/99 in 1972. He is now featured on KMSR/990 AM (www.990mainstreet.com) streamed live on the internet from 9am-noon CST.
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 a small town in southeastern Kentucky.
McCarthy was a charter inductee into the Texas Radio Hall of Fame in 2002 ( www.trhof.com ), 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 D-FW 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, a former symphony cellist and the ?voice? of 990 MainStreet Radio.
