Welcome to Big Cat 105.5 WLVK Country Radio! What do you get when you mix the best of Today's Country and Yesterday's Classics along with smooth sounding personalities that relate to your lifestyle? PLUS add just the right combination of news, weather, U of L Sports and a chance to win some great prizes.........the answer is simple: It's BIG CAT 105.5 WLVK! Rated number one with Hardin County listeners in the 2004 Arbitron County by County survey! Give us a listen and let us know what you think. BIG CAT 105.5 WLVK looks for opportunities to treat our listeners special! With that in mind, we have designed the BIG CAT BBQ - a noon show filled with listener requests. Each day, we'll highlight a different sponsor. Each day, you have the opportunity to become a winner of lunch for two from that day's sponsor. We take the callers - the winner takes the prize! Be sure to call us daily from noon till 1pm with your requests! 769-1055 or *1055, always a free call from Bluegrass Cellular phone Don't forget to say "Thank You" to our sponsors for giving you a chance to win when you visit with them! Big Cat 105.5 WLVK PO Box 2087 Elizabethtown , KY 42701 1-888-766-1035 BIG CAT 105.5 doesn't just talk about the community, we are IN the community. We support those organizations that are active and working hard to make our community a better place to live. We've also included some other links for your information and enjoyment. Sunny With almost 20 years of on air experience at various stations in the region, I was ready for a new and different challenge. Hired as a sales executive initially in February 2002, it didn't take long to worm my way back into the studio, doing sales during the day and a disc jockey shift at night. I love being able to help clients make advertising decisions AND do my shift as a BIG CAT jock! Give a listen 7p - midnight! With 2 teenage sons, Garrett and Dylan and a GREAT MANY (mostly rescued) dogs, I stay pretty busy outside work. 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 John Deere dad. That is until January of 1982 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 and the turntables, cart machines and all the records, 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! I'm so grateful for GM Rene' Bell giving me a call in April of 2000 to let me know that she, along with partners Bill Walters and Mike Baldwin had purchased WLVK. Rene' also wanted to get some ideas about programming the Station and I'm proud to say that it was our meeting at Back Home restaurant where the idea for playing classics was born. We decided to mix the classics in with only the best of the new music and keep the talk to a minimum. It worked! In the Arbitron Survey for 2004, WLVK was the number one station in Hardin County with listeners 12+! So that's my radio history. As for my personal life, I got into another career in June of 1991. The baby business! My wife Melissa and I now have 5 children: Aletha-14, Dustin-12, Cale a-7, Brooke-6 and Ethan-2. We still live in the town where it all started in 1982, Hodgenville. And every morning I'm up at 4:00am to do the Breakfast Club on Big Cat 105-5 and what I fell in love with over 20 years ago, radio. Greg Laha Born and raised in Elizabethtown , I graduated from Elizabethtown High School in 1978. While still in high school I began my radio career at the tender age of 16 at an Elizabethtown radio station. I served this country for four years beginning in 1987 - 1991 in the Air Force in active duty including participation in Desert Shield and served in the reserves for four years also, concluding my Air Force duties in 1994. While in the service, I kept my feet wet by working for radio stations in North Carolina . I came back to Kentucky in 1993 and worked in radio in Lexington and Frankfort for 10 years; then returned home to Elizabethtown in 2003 to work for WASE and WLVK. I'm now on the air weekday afternoons on BIG CAT 105.5 WLVK and also weekday evenings on our sister station, KOOL 103.5 WASE. I am an avid Kentucky Wildcats fan and enjoy fishing and hunting. Heidi Sidebottom "Baby, if you've ever wondered. Wondered whatever became of me. I'm living on the air in Cinn-ah Etown. Elizabethtown , WLVK. I've been town to town, up and down the dial ." If you are too young to remember the show that opened with that song then, without the Elizabethtown reference, google "WKRP". It was a very funny T.V. show about the life within a radio station in the late 1970's. I was just a kid and may not have gotten all the references, but I LOVED it! I have a theory, just like in the movies, every person should have their own soundtrack playing throughout their life. I started my love of music, which included radio at a very early age. I would record songs, create talk shows, and my own commercials. However I was still intent on becoming a lawyer. I was in high school when I realized that years and YEARS of school remained if I still wanted to be a lawyer. It was then that I started thinking about radio. It wasn't until 1994 that I got the nerve, and applied at the small 'hometown' AM and FM radio stations in Bardstown. Two days later, I was hired. The snowball hasn't stopped! Just like the song says, I've been town to town, up and down the dial. This is my 11th year in radio and I've been on, in some way, 12 radio stations. I always dreamed of meeting the people who make the music, and going to important dinners. Through radio, I've met a Vice President, a couple of Governors, a Dutchess, Miss America, famous singers and actors, well-known basketball players, wrestlers, coaches, and people I even used to watch on T.V. as a kid!! I've even been to one of the big Derby Parties, and was given an earring by the Prince Of Monaco! Now I am closer to home and it feels good! I am News Director/Promotions/ Public Affairs/Production/ On-Air Personality for Big Cat 105-5 WLVK and KOOL 103.5 WASE. I realize something now, I finally have the soundtrack to my life! Yep, if I ever want to change my soundtrack, I just walk down the hall to our sister station. J Heidi lives in Nelson County , and is currently renovating a house. She also enjoys time with her furbabies . Gizmo, Maggie Mae (Cocker Spaniels) and then there's the feline sort, Sophie, Angel and Ariel.