NewsRadio 840 WHAS Celebrates 100 Years of Service

NewsRadio 840 WHAS Celebrates 100 Years of Service

NewsRadio 840 WHAS is celebrating 100 years of service on July 18, 2022. The station will spend its “birthday” with a full celebration during Kentuckiana’s Morning News, the Tony & Dwight Show and Terry Meiners Show on July 18th.

840 WHAS is Kentucky’s oldest radio station and its history has been well preserved. The LKYRadio.com website is a virtual museum of WHAS history including newspaper articles, jingles and airchecks of great content and historic moments heard on 840 over the past several decades.

For more WHAS history, Berea College has this historical collection. A deeper read on the station’s early history can be found here: https://ir.library.louisville.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1297&context=etd

NewsRadio 840 WHAS afternoon host Terry Meiners has spent the past year speaking with people from the station’s past in his “WHAS100” series. Hear dozens of interviews on Terry’s podcast feed including a chat with the late morning host Wayne Perkey.

See and hear more here at WHAS.com, just CLICK HERE.