WAKY call letters return!

What am I doing talking about WAKY on a KAAY blog? Well, first WAKY was owned by LIN Broadcasting as was KAAY. Many of the original employees came from WAKY, like Mike Hankins, George Jennings, and Jack Grady. The big news WAKY call letters return. Here's the item:


79WAKY.com would like to welcome WAKY back to the Derby City! On May 11, 2007, WASE-FM in Elizabethtown changed their call letters to WAKY, while maintaining their popular oldies format. Now much of the Louisville market can enjoy the music and jingles that made WAKY famous on the all new WAKY 103-5.

On the www.79WAKY.com website you can check out Mike McCormick a/k/a Mike Hankins that I write about often, under "DJs".

On the site Mike writes about George:

George J. Jennings WAKY News Director in the '60s (right before Bob Watson). He also worked at KAAY in Little Rock, Arkansas and WOIA in San Antonio, Texas. Died March 15, 2007 at the age of 67 due to renal failure. Mike McCormick wrote in 2005:
"George Jennings was my second news director at KAAY/Little Rock. He was later transferred to WAKY/Louisville, another LIN Broadcasting station. He also served as our News Director at Storz's WDGY/Minneapolis, but later returned to KAAY."After a couple of changes in Little Rock he accepted a position at WOIA/San Antonio and retired around a year or so ago. [JQ notes: He retired in 1999 after more than 20 years at WOIA.]
"We plan to get together soon and drain Austin of its beer supply...and tell radio lies all evening long.
"George is a great broadcaster and super gentleman. I'd hire him again...probably!"

I guess Mike forgot George doesn't drink. The one night he did.......well thats another story.