Cale Tharp

 

Believe it or not I did not listen to the radio as a youngster. I could have cared less. I wanted to be a farmer just like my dad. That is until 1983 when at the ripe old age of 12, I went with my dad to deliver a cornbread cake to morning disc jockey Ed Cundiff on WLCB-AM in Hodgenville , Kentucky . (Ed was always playing tricks on my mother so she decided to play one on him on his birthday) Anyway after looking at the studio I realized what I wanted to do with my life. I wanted to make a career out of radio. So I started hanging around the station and eventually they let me go on the air for an hour or so at a time. But my career came to a sudden stop in October of 1983 when the station was sold and my hero Ed along with all the other staff I had worked with were gone. I found this out the hard way when I stopped in to visit with the new General Manager and I said "I'm ready to go on the air now." Well, after laughing for 10 minutes he kindly showed me the door. That's when I realized I had to take matters into my own hands. So with the help of my yard-mowing money, I built my own studio in my room to continue doing what I loved. I woke up every morning at 3:30 just to get a few hours of radio time in before going to school. This continued until January of 1985 when I finally convinced the Management of WLCB that I needed to be on the air. I worked there until April of 1986 when I made the move to Elizabethtown , Kentucky . From there it was off to Louisville and Greensburg , Kentucky , on to Meridian , Mississippi and eventually back to Elizabethtown in January of 1994 where I'm still at today on the best country station in the world, Big Cat 105-5 WLVK! So that's my radio history.

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