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Kentucky did not change time zones during the 1974 gas crisis; I think the problem had to do with Kentucky being so far west that, like Atlanta, the sun didn't come up before about 9 AM but didn't set until around 9 PM; this was supposed to save energy. Ohio, OTOH, did turn the clocks ahead one hour. So what you have, essentially, is an Eastern time schedule for Cincinnati and a Central time one for Louisville and Lexington.

Lexington was on Eastern time in the 1950s; Louisville didn't switch to Eastern until the early 1960s, (I had a teacher from Louisville who remembered when the switch to Eastern took place.) Since the fall of 1974 Louisville and Lexington have stayed on an Eastern time schedule, while the areas around Evansville, IN, Paducah, and Bowling Green have stayed on Central.
 
That's precisely what you had. The Lexington stations (and, I'm assuming, Louisville as well) ratcheted back their schedules to conform to Central Time, such that you had the late news at 10 pm instead of 11 pm, and so on. Not all of Kentucky conformed to this, IIRC the Eastern/Central time zone boundary on I-64 was the Carter/Rowan county line.

Here's a map from the Louisville Courier-Journal (4 January 1974) of Governor Wendell Ford's proposal for a permanent time zone change.

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