WAKING UP WITH KELLY K LOCAL MORNING RADIO HOST TALKS 20 YEARS IN THE BUSINESS Kelly’s plan was to be a TV anchor one day and while getting some broadcasting experience, Kelly says she fell in love with Kelly K and her husband, Michael married radio. She loved entertaining audiences and in October 2006. They have two kids, Jacob “My internship turned into being a co-host continued on her path in radio. According and Ava. Their family hobbies include family on a morning show very much like our show to Kelly, after she graduated, her roommate games, shopping and movies. Kelly says they now.” Kelly says. suggested she move to Louisville. Kelly like to make silly videos and they also love moved to Louisville in August 1996 and playing with their two pugs, Poppy and Piper. According to Kelly, her internship was the began work at MIX102. best place to learn the ropes, and she says Kelly explains that her first radio gig was her first morning partner, Rick Mummy, was “MIX102 was an 80s and 90s format”, her internship. an incredible teacher. Kelly met Rick while says Kelly, 102.3 (formerly MIX102) is in Lafayette studying at Purdue. where Kelly did middays and became a ”I got into radio at age 19 while a student promotions director. at Purdue University as an intern (I was “Rick taught me so much about comedy and majoring in TV production thinking I structuring a show,” she says. “The station was purchased a year later, the would do TV news),” she says. “I was format flipped and we were all fired,” she voicing commercials the first week, had a The biggest thing she had to learn was to be says. “Bounced from LITE 106.9 mornings weekend air shift in the first month, and was authentic. “Your audience will know if you to B 96.5 to HOT104.3 before landing at co-hosting the morning show by the end of are faking it to create some character version 99.7 DJX to do mornings with Peter B in the first year!” of yourself,” Kelly adds. May of 1999.” Writer / Kelsey Schneider Photography Provided
She says the station was similar to DJX and her internship was where she gained some broadcasting experience.
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