I love my Great Day Live teammates. Left to right, Laura Rogers, me, Rachel Platt, and Angie Fenton are all strong women with delightfully humorous personalities. Each one is a treasure in my life. Our weekday morning magazine show has been a joyous ride for the past three years. No changes are expected as we roll into our fourth year. Our team photo from August 22, 2012 A comparison from today to our launch photos from August 2011 And just for fun, enjoy this morning's opening segment where we were not prepared for the start of the show.
Tag: Louisville
Maniac behind the wheel; wanted death by police
The WHAS-11 helicopter followed Travis Mettling through the streets of Louisville as he ran from police. He was originally stopped on a routine traffic issue in Jeffersontown. Mettling decided to make a run for it and led police on a 58 minute chase that ended on Dixie Highway. Mettling was in contact with police negotiators via cell phone during the chase. Police rammed his vehicle and removed Mettling and three adult passengers. Jeffersontown police chief Rick Sanders said the suspect wanted to die in a police shootout. Mettling was taken into custody with minor injuries. The passengers were not arrested. Outstanding camera work by the WHAS-11 team. It is a miracle that this maniacal driver did not hurt or kill
Kentucky Derby 140 earns cred for California Chrome
A phenomenal Kentucky Derby run by California Chrome secured the hope that a Triple Crown winner could be in the making for 2014. The horse's owners tell their story below. Your browser does not support iframes.
This is not a post about race
by Terry Meiners March 26, 2014 This is not a post about race. It is a post about a community's inherent mission, the protection of its law-abiding citizens from predators. The Great Wall of China is not a decoration. That wall, forts, castles, and foxholes were created for protection from predators. People who live in a community do so with the understanding that they will protect each other - or pay taxes to afford efficient protection - from those who would burst the order of the community. When a person or persons within the community breach that pact, they are sent to another sturdy construction called a prison so that they cannot continue preying upon their community. GHOST TOWN ON THE RIVER In the 1970s,
Inaugural PM Louisville show on WHAS-TV
Here are cuts from the very first PM Louisville show that ran on September 7, 1989. WHAS-TV added hosts Ange Humphrey Davidson and me to localize the PM Magazine franchise. Ange and I would shoot all five of the next week's shows on Wednesday mornings at WHAS studios. We would begin at 8 a.m. and change clothes after each show to record the next. We usually wrapped shooting by 1:30 so that I could get to work prepping my radio show. Ange and I hosted PM Louisville for only one year. The show was repackaged as Louisville Tonight Live, which was broadcast live at 7 p.m. nightly. My radio show runs until 7 every night and Ange Humphrey lived
It’s the money tree we need to keep an eye on
Airplanes are landing at Bowman Field. Trees continue growing around Bowman Field. Some neighborhood residents have formed Plea for Trees, a group dedicated to saving the trees. An enormous amount of tax money is about to be spent for another assessment to assess the previous assessment that assessed yet another previous assessment. Let's inject some sanity into this situation. Why must we spend nearly $500,000 on a study of 150 trees (or clusters)? That's $3,303.33 per tree...for a study. Let's spend that money trimming tree tops that are in the standard glide paths of the runways, which are defined on pilot approach/departure charts. We all love trees. We all make choices when we buy houses at or near airports. Trees grow.
She said “Yes!”
It was fun having a marriage proposal on live TV. Watch these two young people become engaged on Great Day Live. And if Valentine's Day is awful for you, watch the Michael Jackson or Sinead O'Connor videos to feel your vibe.
The Bingham family media sales of 1986
This 1986 video shows WHAS-11 News reporting on the sale of the final media properties held by the Bingham family of Louisville. The Binghams dominated Louisville's media landscape by controlling the major daily newspaper, plus the most popular radio and television stations. WHAS-AM and WAMZ-FM were sold for slightly more than $20 million to Clear Channel Communications of San Antonio, the fifth and sixth stations to join its burgeoning portfolio. Clear Channel went on to build a chain of 1,200 stations across America before selling to Bain Capital. At the time of this report, the Binghams had already sold The Courier-Journal newspaper to Gannett; WHAS-11 to the Providence Journal Corp., and Standard Gravure (rotogravure printing) to an Atlanta investor. In
2013 legal shocker: The Jackson gravy train is derailed
Surely worldwide adoration of the late Michael Jackson would score a sympathy payoff for his mom's negligence lawsuit against concert promoter AEG. The family was asking for a paltry $1.5 billion. Uh, no. The jury denied that windfall. Not a cent went to the Jacksons, who are still rolling in dough from dead Michael's music and swag royalties. On January 3, 2014, a judge refused to revisit the verdict, narrowing the Jacksons' appeal options. Tito, Jermaine, Jackie, Randy, Marlon, and the rest of the family is still able to sidestep working for the rest of their lives, albeit on a slightly tighter budget. This Motown performance 30 years ago is the last time the brothers had a major celebrated appearance with Michael. Their
Hugh ain’t gonna believe this
Here's a Hugh Haynie cartoon banned from local publication because of the bond between the Kennedy and Bingham families. Barry Bingham Sr. dictated the censorship (pink banner) to his Courier-Journal editor in 1969. The Hugh Haynie editorial cartoon collection is on display at the Frazier History Museum in Louisville. More Hugh Haynie classics