Lachlan McLean
Lachlan McLean is a News Anchor for Spectrum News 1 in Kentucky. He can be seen across the state from 5:00-9:00pm ET.
He formerly hosted "The Midday Rush" sports talk radio show on ESPN680 (WHBE-AM). The show aired from March 2016 to August 2020 from 10:00am-12:00n ET. He co-hosted with Andy Sweeney for the first three years of the show and in April 2019 they were rated the #1 sports talk radio show in their time slot in their target demographic. Andy moved to afternoon drive in 2019 and Lachlan was a solo host for the final year of the show.
Prior to ESPN Louisville, he was host of the popular radio show "Sports Talk 840" (formerly "Sports Talk 84"), weeknights from 7:00-9:00pm ET on WHAS-AM radio in Louisville, hosting from July 2004 to May 2015. He also delivered the afternoon sportscasts for the Terry Meiners Show. In February 2015, McLean announced he would leave the show to move to Charlotte, North Carolina after his wife got a job there. In April 2015, WHAS-AM announced it would discontinue the sports talk show after his departure, ending a tradition that started in the 1980s. [1] In January 2016 McLean moved back to Louisville with his family.
Before his radio career, McLean worked as a television sports Anchor/Reporter at WFXL-TV in Albany, Georgia, WRDW-TV in Augusta, Georgia and WHAS-TV in Louisville. He also worked in station promotions for WBKI-TV in Louisville.
He graduated from the University of Virginia with an Economics degree in 1989 and was a corporate finance analyst for Lehman Brothers in New York City. His first sports job was a production position at ESPN in 1992.
He is married to former WAVE-TV reporter Carolyn Gaeta and they have two daughters.
References
- Eric Crawford (15 April 2015). "CRAWFORD - Mandy Connell back in, Sports Talk out for WHAS Radio".