Tom Martin Really Wants to Talk About the Power of Radio

As Happy Chandler once said, “I never met a Kentuckian who wasn’t on his way home.” Tom Martin is native of Morehead, Kentucky and has come home after a long and illustrious career in radio broadcasting that went from Morehead to Washington DC to New York City and back to the Bluegrass. Tom has been a national news anchor, the substitute host for the legendary Paul Harvey and now is the producer and host of Eastern Standard on WEKU, the NPR affiliate that covers eastern, northern and central Kentucky. Tom and I talk about the power of radio, a and the way the news media has changed over the years. Tom is also an accomplished musician and tells the story of how his music and his life were forever altered the first time he heard R&B music on his transistor radio coming all the way from Nashville on WLAC. Tom has a beautiful, melodious radio voice and I could have listened to him tell his stories all day long.