Morehead State Public Radio(MSPR) will broadcast Kentucky Educational Television's (KET) coverage of Fancy Farm 2014, with a special program to air at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 5.
KET hosts Bill Goodman and Renee Shaw will present highlights from the Fancy Farm picnic and offer excerpts from the speeches in a one-hour Fancy Farm 2014 Special.
“Fancy Farm has become a ‘must see’ event for many of our KET viewers,” Goodman said. “We do our best to bring viewers the flavor and feeling of one of the oldest political picnics in the nation.”
Every year since the early 1880s, St. Jerome Catholic Church in the small town of Fancy Farm (Graves County) in Western Kentucky has hosted an annual community picnic. It was a local affair at first, but at some point, political candidates began to see the picnic as a good chance to meet, greet and stump for votes. Soon a platform for speaking was added, and by the middle of the 20th century, Fancy Farm had become the unofficial kickoff event for the fall campaigns in Kentucky.
KET serves more than one million people each week via television, online and mobile. Learn more about KET public media organization online at www.ket.org.
MSPR broadcasts 24-hours a day from the MSU campus. WMKY (90.3 FM) serves as the flagship station for the network. MSPR serves more than 20 counties in Kentucky, Ohio and West Virginia.
Additional information is available on MSPR's website at www.wmky.orgor from Paul Hitchcock, general manager, by email at wmky@moreheadstate.eduor phone at 606-783-2001.