![]() Karen Moses
Email: karen@simcorpconsulting.com
Cell Phone: 606-524-0099
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Karen Moses is an Advertising & Marketing Expert. She has been working in Small Market Radio Sales and Radio Station Managment for over 20 years. She has worked in several markets in Kentucky and Florida. She is also a Sales trainer. She is currently the President of:
Call Karen for your next Marketing Plan, Advertising Schedule and Sales Training.
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![]() Tim Estes
Sports Director and Show Host
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Tim Estes is the morning show host from 5:30 to 8:30 AM and is our Sports Director. It is Tim's love of sports and the kids of Lincoln County that drives him to go above and beyond in covering local sporting events. Tim was part of the WRSL football broadcast crew from 1984-1986.
Tim retired from Lincoln County schools after teaching and coaching for 27 years. He was an assistant footall coach at Lincoln County High School from 1987-1993. He was head football coach at Webster County High Shool during the 1994 and 1995 seasons before returning as an assistant at LCHS in 1996. He was the Head Football Coach at Lincoln County from 1997-2001.
He lives in Stanford.
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Calvin C. Smith
(1932-1987)
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Calvin Coolidge Smith was born in Clay County, Kentucky on June 14, 1932. He was our company President from 1965 until his death in 1987. In a story about his death, he was referred to as "the common thread" for the community. He was a 1950 graduate of Clay Couny High School and a 1954 graduate of Eastern Kentucky State Teacher's College, now Eastern Kentucky University.
He was an Army verteran and attended the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music. He worked in radio at various stations in Kentucky, Tennessee, Indiana and West Virginia. His first radio job was at WFTG in London, Kentucky in 1956. From there, he went to the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music before starting full-time in radio at WWXL in Manchester, Kentucky. The following appeared in the Manchester Enterprise newspaper in November, 1957
He came to Stanford in 1965 buying the interests of W.G. Morgan, S.C. Bybee and Ray Doss in WRSL Radio Station.He also worked for the Kentucky State Treasurer and Kentucky Secretary of State in the 1970's and early 1980's. During his time in Stanford, he headed may civic organizations. He was past president and director of the Stanford-Lincoln County Chamber of Commerce and its Citizen of the Year in 1986, past president and director of Stanford Lions Club, a director of Lincoln County Fair Board, past president of Stanford PTA and member of the Lincoln County Industrial Authority. He was the emcee at nearly every community eventHe also served as the Public Address announcer for Lincoln County high school football games, was a member of the Lincoln County Quarterback Club and was active in the promotion of youth sports through the Stanford Lions Club. He was married to Janie Ruth Coffey Smith and they had six children: Calvin Lynn Smith, David Lee Smith, Phillip Layne Smith, Jonathan Logan Smith, Joseph Lanier Smith and Amy Lu Smith Bastin. He died on November 15, 1987 from pancreatic cancer after being diagnosed with that terrible disease in February, 1987. At 55 years old, Cal Smith died much, much too soon. |
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![]() Ruth Smith
(1930-2003)
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Janie Ruth Coffey was born on November 27, 1930 in Rockcastle County, Kentucky, and spent her first years in a small house on land that is now under water as part of man-made Lake Linville. She was a 1948 graduate of Mount Vernon High School and attended Eastern Kentucky State Teacher's College, now Eastern Kentucky Universty. She left school to become Mrs. Calvin Smith in 1951 and spent the rest of her life taking care of him and their resulting family. She was the epitome of a loyal wife. She organized and tolerated over 34 moves from 1954-1965 as Cal served in the Army and then climbed the radio ladder by moving to different towns for better opportunities. After Cal's death in 1987, she bravely took over the company and worked tirelessly to continue its business. She retired in 1994. She never really got over her husband's death and longed for him every day. She never slept in their bed after his death, instead, she spent her nights dozing on the couch with the television on for company. She died on December 3, 2003 from lung cancer after being in remission from the disease for nearly 4 1/2years.
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![]() Arvil "Plow" Jones
(1938-1995)
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Arvil Jones was born on Paces Creek in Clay County, Kentucky. His parents, Pearl and Polly Jones, lived next door to Gilbert and Vicie Abner. The Abners were Calvin Smith's grandparents. Across the road from the Abner home was where Calvin Smith lived. Arvil was nicknamed "Plow" by a cousin apparently because Arvil was so scared of a local fellow named "Harvest Plow" that he would hide under the bed whenever the man came to their house. The nickname stuck and that is what most people knew him by. Plow survived a childhood bout with polio and other than stunted growth of his legs and the use of crutches, he led a normal life. He eventually married Janice Bowling of the Big Creek section of Clay County and they had three children: Janie Melissa Jones Hogue, Jeanie Michelle Jones Kidd and Jeffery Michael Jones, all of whom still live in the Stanford area. Plow and Janice divorced in the early 1980's. Plow began working in radio in 1958 in Manchester, Kentucky. He was visiting his friend Calvin Smith, who was that station's manager, when Smith put him on the air. Plow thought Cal went into the other room to listen to him. In a few minutes, Cal called him from a service station downtown and told him that he was sounding good. Plow used to tell the story that he couldn't find the phone and once that he did, he left the microphone turned on and the conversation went out over the air. Jones worked at WWXL with Cal Smith and later also worked at stations in Barbourville, Pineville, London and Corbin. He came to work for WRSL in 1965 when Cal Smith bought the station and stayed until his death in 1995. For a while when Cal also owned WKDO in Liberty, Plow used to work a mornng shift in Stanford and then drive to Liberty to work an afternoon shift there. Plow died on March 5, 1995. He too, died too early at only 57 years old. The following is a text of a column written by Byron Crawford for the Courier-Journal in 1982:
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