Bob McKay
Written Apr. 1, 2009 by Sean Ross in Terrestrial Radio with 0 Comments
There are a lot of transitions in radio these days, but with the news this morning that WXTU Philadelphia PD Bob McKay will be leaving the station eight months ahead of his planned end-of-the-year retirement, a shout-out is in order. For the last decade, McKay crafted a unique Country station in a market where Country has never had an easy path, and unlike some programmers confronted with that task, never did it in a way that denied being a Country station. Despite his indelible association with Country, McKay brought a lot of the same CHR sensibilities to the format that successor Leo Baldwin will, and programmed a station that was, in a good way, different from the record-for-record, liner-for-liner homogeneity of many Country stations.
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