Phyllis Knight was a pioneer female broadcast personality for WHAS radio and television for 26 years. She won two Golden Mike Awards from McCall’s magazine as Outstanding Woman in Radio and Television, in 1958 and 1963, for a series urging women to have the Pap test for cervical cancer and another for the misconceptions about adoption procedures. She joined the Louisville stations in 1955 as home director after starting her career at age 17 at a radio station in Champaign, Illinois. She conducted “Small Talk,” a 15-minute television interview program for 13 years on WHAS-TV. She suffered a mental breakdown after six years in the news department developing human interest and medical stories, recovered and returned to work with a six-part series on depression. Knight made a tradition of wearing fancy hats and changing them each time she was on the air during coverage of Kentucky Derby activities. She was executive director of the WHAS Crusade for Children for six years. She later became executive director for Children’s Hospital Foundation. Knight received numerous awards for her broadcast work.