Don Markwell

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Don Markwell is a talk radio personality in Montgomery, Alabama. He was born in Central City, Kentucky, and began his radio career as a disc jockey in 1956.

Don came to Montgomery in the mid-1960s and created Alabama's first call-in talk show on the now-defunct radio station WQTY-AM 1000, which originated from the Frank Leu Building in downtown Montgomery. Markwell also served as program director for WLWI-FM 92.3 for many years, before returning to the talk format on the new WACV-AM 1170 in 1986.

He celebrated his fiftieth year in broadcasting on June 18, 2006.