Post by Steve Adkins on Mar 17, 2005 23:55:33 GMT -5
I watched the 50th Anniversary of WLEX-TV in Lexington this month. The saddest thing I have ever seen. It was clips from all the way back to 1995 and maybe a few years before. Apparently the 20 somethings that now work at WLEX thought the 50th anniversary show should be about people that had worked there in the past five years. We got to see bloopers up to three years old of the current staff. What we didn't get to see was the Adolph Rupp Show that aired on the station for years, we didn't see the UK broadcasts when the station had the rights for years, we didn't see the staff that worked there longer than any of the newbies. It was mostly just clips of the current staff being unprofessional in segments they called bloopers and there were a lot of them. It is a shame that WLEX who has a 50 year rich tradition did not show any of it. WLEX was the first TV station in Lexington, the first Color Station in Lexington, the first UK station in Lexington but the show the 20 somethings put together talked very little of the station's history. Instead it was padded with filler stories about what UK had done in sports or what was on the NBC network. Hopefully, WKYT's 50th anniversary in a couple of years will actually cover their station's history.