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Byron Crawford

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235: 45:. The feature was later syndicated as "Sideroads" to other television stations in Kentucky, Tennessee and Ohio. Before his "On the Road" series, Crawford was a news reporter for the station. He started in radio at WAKY in Louisville as a news reporter and moved to WCKY in Cincinnati, Ohio, as a reporter. He then joined WHAS Radio and Television as a reporter when the stations were still under the same ownership as 288: 71:, from the debut in September 1995 through summer 1999. He has published four books, all compilations of his columns: "Crawford's Journal" in 1986, "Kentucky Stories" in 1994, "Kentucky Footnotes" in 2010, and "The Back Page" in 2022. ref name="book" /> 353: 81:
In 2009 Crawford was inducted into the Kentucky Journalism Hall of Fame, and in 2017 he was honored as a Distinguished Rural Kentuckian by the Kentucky Association of Electric Cooperatives.
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newspaper, where his column was of a similar vein as his television work. He wrote the column three times each week until retiring in 2008.
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Today, Crawford continues his work penning the back page column, "Byron Crawford's Kentucky" for
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titled "On the Road," somewhat of a localized version of the series by the same name by
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Crawford was also the first host of the Emmy Award-winning television series
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Crawford left WHAS in 1979 to become the Kentucky Columnist for
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Crawford is best known for a continuing series of reports on
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