Tom Martin
Producer/HostTom Martin hosts Eastern Standard, a weekly radio magazine of interviews and stories about interesting people, places, and things happening in the Commonwealth.
Martin, a Morehead native, has served as news anchor for KQV Radio in Pittsburgh, a Peabody Award-winning anchor and documentarian at AP Radio Network News in Washington, D.C., as well as a news anchor for the RKO Radio Network, ABC Network News and WABC News in New York. Tom also served for five years as a vacation substitute for commentator Paul Harvey.
He hosted "The World's First Rhythm and News Show" on WVLK-Lexington and was the founding program director and morning host on WRVG, the former public station at Georgetown College.
From 2005 until 2013, Tom was the founding editor-in-chief for Business Lexington.
You can contact Tom at es@eku.edu
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Former Standard & Poors Managing Director and lifelong Appalachian journalist Jim Branscome on what local officials should make sure they do before green lighting a data center in their locales. -
As co-founder of the Lexington-based aerospace and biotechnology company Space Tango, and founder or the organization “Humanity in Deep Space,” Kris Kimel is tuned-in as preparations are underway to resume manned space exploration. -
This week on Eastern Standard: Episode 33 of our series, “Democracy Optimist” with Joshua Douglas.Preparing for the midterm elections with Kentucky Secretary of State Michael Adams and Andrea Hailey, CEO of Vote.org. -
In September, McClatchy Media made deep cuts at newspapers around the country, including the Lexington Herald-Leader. -
Our series “I’m Not From Here” is bringing to light a Kentucky population that is made up of people from all over the world. David Miller’s latest guest, Katerina Stoykova is from Bulgaria but for decades has made Lexington her home. -
David Phemister, Nature Conservancy-KY, acquisition of 1700+ acres of forest in Bell Co. and what this means. -
Kentucky has hundreds of nursing homes caring for some of the Commonwealth’s most vulnerable residents. Questions have persisted about staffing, inspections, neglect and whether government oversight is adequate to protect the people living in them. -
Episode 32 of our series, Democracy Optimist, takes the temperature of a challenged American democracy with only weeks to go before a highly consequential midterm election. -
“I’m Not From Here” is a new series from Eastern Standard contributor David T. Miller. -
A full hour focused on art: its well-being, its protection, its performance and its ability to bridge cultures.
