KNIGHT RIDER RADIO

Tony Cullip is “a music man,” broadcasting interviews with independent and little-known musicians on his Knight Rider Radio Internet station from his Shepherdsville bedroom.



But for a brief moment, Cullip ventured into the arena of political reporting. He interviewed Dea Riley, independent lieutenant governor candidate, in May.



“Are we looking at a losing battle, or are the people, especially the elderly and handicapped, going to benefit from this?” Cullip asked Riley, who is running with gubernatorial candidate Gatewood Galbraith, about the national health care reform bill.



“I am for health care reform. My issue is the manner with which they went about this,” she responded. “They did not strike at the heart of the problem.”



For roughly six years, Cullip, 45, has run his station named after David Hasselhoff's TV show.



He called his setup “a little ‘Wayne's World,' ” referencing the low-scale cable-access show portrayed in the 1992 film. His small bedroom contains a 65-inch television, which doubles as a third computer monitor, and a small desk with computers, headphones and a microphone.



Cullip, who works at Shepherdsville's Alliance Entertainment as a cherry picker driver, showcases music from several genres, including metal and country, and has a show called “KRRN Artist Showcase.”



“I do this for the love of music,” he said when interviewed in April. “I'd sweep floors at a radio station just to be around it, just to feel that excitement.”



Cullip's list of interviewees from this year also includes Denise Beaty, aka “The Rockin' Grandma,” a Kentucky singer, songwriter and CEO of Rockin' Grandma Records. The grandmother of five got into music after working as a nurse for 23 years.



“I feel like that no matter how old you are, you can still have your dreams,” she said on the show. “You never quit dreaming.”



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Shepherdsville man features musicians on his own Internet radio station

By Emily Hagedorn • ehagedorn@courier-journal.com • April 7, 2010

As Tony Cullip puts it, his setup is “a little ‘Wayne's World.'”

But instead of a cable-access television show being filmed in a basement — as featured in the 1992 film starring Mike Myers and Dana Carvey — Cullip produces an Internet radio station, Knight Rider Radio, from his Shepherdsville bedroom.

A 65-inch television, which doubles as a third computer monitor, sits a few feet from his daybed. A small desk between the TV and bed hold laptop and desktop computers and a microphone. A set of headphones is wrapped around his bedpost.

Despite the modest setup, Cullip, a.k.a. DJ Knightman, has maintained his radio , which plays music and features interviews with musicians, for five years.

“We are live, and we have Jayc Harold here in the studio,” Cullip, 44, said during a recent show, in which he interviewed Harold, a honky-tonk gospel singer from Nashville.

Harold, 39, sat on Cullip's bed, strumming his guitar, while Cullip sat in his desk chair.

“Nobody move, and don't touch that mouse,” Cullip told the invisible audience.

Harold is Cullip's first live, in-person interview. He has done roughly 150 interviews over the phone, mostly with independent artists he…

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