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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With bourbon sales booming there is pressure on a key resource: the white oak. Eastern Standard’s Crystal Jones reports.
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This week on Eastern Standard, how the changing climate and extreme weather is forcing up the cost of property insurance.
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“It’s Time” is a campaign against domestic violence launched by the city of Lexington.
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"We have to quit whispering about it” —Yvette Hourigan, Executive Director of the Kentucky Lawyers Assistance Program, on the stigma that prevents us from talking openly about suicide.
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On Todays Eastern Standard, Mental health issues, exacerbated by the conditions of the pandemic, are becoming evident in schools, from first grade through college.
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On this week's edition of Eastern Standard: Tom Eblen in conversation with Barbara Kingsolver about her best-selling Appalachian novel, Demon Copperhead.
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A Special Edition of Eastern Standard, for our Fall Fund Drive. Part One: The College of Charleston grad student who discovered records of the largest single auction of enslaved people.Part Two: An update on economic development in southeast Kentucky.Part Three: The grit, determination, and flexibility it takes to succeed in local and regional theatre production.
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The first part of a three-part series on the mission to eliminate chemical weapons at a Central Kentucky Army facility