Kevin McCarthy is an American radio-television personality in north

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. He was part of the original staff of KNUS/99, being brought to the station by

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in 1972. 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

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before leaving in 2001 to start his own business, a multi-media marketing company. 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

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in 2002. 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. He also served as the

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for the

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for twenty years until February 2000. McCarthy is divorced and resides in

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, a suburb north of Dallas.

References

External links

Texas Radio Hall of Fame
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