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| Sue Wylie (kentucky.com photo) |
"I thought about it a long time," she told Scott Sloan at kentucky.com.
"Your heart just tells you when it's time to go."
Wylie leaves a considerable legacy. Recognized as a
pioneering woman in broadcasting, she was inducted into the Kentucky Journalism
Hall of Fame in 1999.
Wylie entered the media industry in Cincinnati in the 1950s
and made her way to Lexington's NBC affiliate, WLEX (Channel 18), in 1968. That
followed stints in Columbus, Ohio, and then Miami, where she was that market's
first female hard-news reporter.
Her tenure at WLEX lasted three decades, during which she
worked as a reporter, an anchor and a public affairs director. She created the
show Your Government in the early 1970s, and her guests included Ronald Reagan,
Ted Kennedy, Jesse Jackson and several Kentucky governors.
She began her radio talk show while working for WLEX and
chose to continue it after retiring from her television job in 1998.
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