- For other uses, see Kevin McCarthy (disambiguation).
Kevin McCarthy has been a radio-tv personality in north Texas since Gordon McLendon brought him to Dallas as part of the original staff of KNUS/99 in 1972. In 2004 he is featured on KMSR/990 AM streamed live on the internet from 9am-noon CST.
McCarthy developed his love for conversation while growing up working behind the soda fountain in his fathers drugstore just down the street from the courthouse in a small town in southeastern Kentucky.
McCarthy was a charter inductee into the Texas Radio Hall of Fame in 2002, a fivetime winner of the Dallas Press Clubs Katy award for Best Talk Show in Texas and the 1995 American Women in Radio & Televisions Dallas-Fort Worth Radio Personality of the Year. He was the Reunion Arena Voice of the Dallas Mavericks for 20 years.
His wife, Yvonne, is an internationally ranked photographer/digital artist, a former symphony cellist and the voice of 990 MainStreet Radio.
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