Earl Kennedy

Earl Kennedy

Earl Kennedy (born August 31 1964) is a Midwestern radio announcer.

Kennedy was born in Ladysmith, Wisconsin to Earl Kennedy, Sr., a retired game warden for the state of Wisconsin, and Charlotte Tunison Kennedy, a housewife and factory worker. He is the youngest of five children raised early in life in Rusk County, Wisconsin. Earl has always considered Ingram, Wisconsin his hometown, and several of his family members still live in that area.

Kennedy got his start in radio in 1979 with WLDY-AM in Ladysmith as a sophomore in high school. He remained there for three years until graduating from Flambeau High School in Tony, Wisconsin in 1982. Following high school he attended Trans American School of Broadcasting in Wausau, Wisconsin, graduating in 1984. He worked in radio following graduation, returning to WLDY and remaining until January 1987. Kennedy then moved on to several other stations in places such as St. Paul, MN, Chippewa Falls, WI and Rice Lake, WI until moving to WXCE-AM in Amery, WI as an announcer and news editor. Earl stayed at WXCE until August 1989, when he moved to Charles City, Iowa to take a position with KCHA-AM/FM as an announcer & news editor. He remained in Charles City for all of six days, when he was asked to take over mornings and become the program director for KCZY-FM in Osage, Iowa...20 miles north of Charles City. Kennedy would remain in Osage until February 1990, when he returned to Charles City to become the news director and night announcer. Earl did this until August 1990, when he accepted a position with WNBI-AM/FM in Park Falls, WI as the morning announcer and news director. He stayed in Park Falls until April 1991, when Earl returned to Iowa to accept a position as the morning announcer and operations manager at KCZQ-FM in Cresco, IA, remaining in this post until April 1992. Kennedy then left the broadcasting industry until May 1996, when he returned to the air in Charles City and Osage, IA on a part-time basis until November 1996...except for a very brief stop at KLSS-FM/KRIB-AM in Mason City, IA as a part-time announcer in early 1994.He returned to the airwaves in February 2006 when he accepted a position with KLSS-FM/KRIB-AM/KYTC-FM/KGLO-AM & KIAI-FM in Mason City, IA as an announcer and sports play-by-play announcer. He left that position in February 2008 to hit the airwaves at the sisters of the Mason City stations in Austin, Minnesota, KAUS-AM 1480 (The Voice) and KAUS-FM (US Country 99.9).

Kennedy remained involved in the entertainment industry, though, as the manager of the nationally recognized Watts Theatre in Osage, Iowa. The Watts was recognized in January 2005 bu USA Today as "One of Ten Great Places in America to Revel in Cinematic Grandeur," putting the Watts in with industry greats like Grauman's Chinese Theatre, the Ziegfield, the Tampa and the Mayan Theatres. Kennedy became the manager of the Watts in June 1994, when after a six-year closure the Watts was totally refurbished to be an operating movie theatre again. Kennedy left the Watts Theatre for health reasons in July 2006.

Kennedy has been married since October 1990 to Linda and they have one daughter, Rachel.


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