Ken (Hubcap) Carter's "Saturday Night Oldies Show" is still heard on KAAM in Dallas, WPTR in Albany, New York and WLGZ in Rochester, New York.  He was inducted into the Texas Radio Hall of Fame in 2002.  He was a special contributing writer for RadioDailyNews.com

A veteran newsman, sportscaster and DJ, Ken (Hubcap) Carter started his long
and colorful radio career at KRBA in Lufkin almost 40 years ago.  This small east Texas
radio station also was the "first" station for radio people like Murphy Martin,
Bill Young, and Robert B. McEntire.

After high school graduation Carter moved to KEEE in Nacogdoches and
became news director of the station at age 20. Shortly after that he
became news director at WWUN in Jackson, Mississippi.  It was there that
he soon began to establish a reputation in radio news with network
coverage of some of the biggest events in the civil rights struggle of
the mid 60's.

Coming back to Texas in 1966 he worked with legendary Texas newsman Joe
Holstead at KLVI in Beaumont..then moved on to KFJZ and the Texas State
Network in Fort Worth. In 1969 he was reunited with Holstead at KXOL in
Fort Worth.  He then spent two years at KBST in Big Spring before
rejoining Holstead again as a part of the news team at KLIF in Dallas.
In 1973 he became news director at KXOL in Fort Worth and then joined
Holstead again at KFJZ and TSN.  He became news director at TSN in 1975.

Carter taught Broadcast Journalism at Texas Christian University and at
Texas Wesleyan University.  He was also assistant basketball coach at
Wesleyan. He did play by play sports for many years with the Shamrock
Oil Company's broadcast of the Texas high school football playoffs and
was the football voice of the University of Texas at Arlington for ten
years.

In 1993 he became a teacher/coach at North Dallas High School and taught
for seven years.

Until his death at age 60 on February 27, 2004, he enjoyed living the kind of normal life that any living legend would.