'A true journalist.' Lexington news anchor Sam Dick retiring after 34 years Jeremy Chisenhall, Lexington Herald-Leader May 26—The man at the helm of WKYT's evening newscasts for the past 34 years is retiring. Sam Dick, who started at WKYT in 1979, will depart in November, he announced Tuesday night. The local news veteran spent all but five years of his career at WKYT. He worked in New York and Orlando in the mid-1980s before returning to WKYT in 1987. "When I first walked in the door at WKYT in March of 1979, I was 23 years old. The newsroom still had typewriters, we shot f...