Katey McGuckin - Partner

Katey McGuckin-Woolam had a dream, a dream of being an actress. After a two year stint in New York she came back to her home town, Kansas City, to marry the love of her life. She was headed back to the Big Apple when a friend asked her to go to a radio station morning show audition for moral support. Little did she know that she would be the one chosen out of 200 candidates. This Cinderella story landed Katey on the number one morning show in Kansas City, KY102 with Dick and Jay. That started her 28 year love of radio.    After learning from the best she was given her own show that generated number one ratings at night and a write up in Billboard Magazine. She later rejoined Dick Wilson for 19 years of  morning duty on 94.9 FM, helping the wake up show stay in the top five 25-54.

During that time she served as the Public Service Director for the four station Bonneville Cluster in Kansas City. She garnered six finalist awards for the prestigious NAB Crystal award for Public Service. In 1997 she won the Crystal award for KMBZ.  

Helping the community was in her blood. Katey was instrumental in bringing together business, media and non-profit agencies developing a “yellow pages” directory that serviced all non-profit agencies in the Kansas City area. This guide was so effective, when Attorney General Janet Reno visited Kansas City she took a copy back to Washington as a model for other communities.

Katey has received many accolades from the radio community. She  won the Greater Kansas City Media award for News and Public Service. Other awards include the Women in Media award for News and Public Service and the March of Dimes Award for community service. She served on many non-profit boards during her tenure with KCMO FM. Her biggest success was the development of the non-profit agency, Bikes and Trikes for Tykes. For 15 years that group collected thousands of bicycles for underprivileged children and non-profit agencies, many of which have been sent to poverty areas in South America.

Katey holds a BFA in theatre from Missouri State University and proudly traveled Europe entertaining troops in a USO Tour. She is still married to the love of her life and has two boys.