University of Louisville head football coach Bobby Petrino visited Great Day Live after his family foundation donated $1 million to Kosair Children's Hospital. Bobby talked of his family's commitment to Louisville, his daughter Kelsey's leadership qualities and his daughter Katie's sporting stardom for the Lady Cards golf team. With the Cardinals moving into the ACC, Coach Petrino said the team is hyper-excited to take on the higher level of competition and that the most important thing is to win every home game as the fans make PJCS the toughest place to play in America.
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And we danced waiting for the Big Dance
Louisville sports talk hosts Tony Vanetti (790KRD Afternoon Underdogs) and Jason Anderson (ESPN680) dissect the 2014 NCAA March Madness paths for Louisville, Kentucky, and other premier college basketball programs
Great Day Naive
Rachel Platt and I occasionally finish an interview segment on our morning TV show Great Day Live and wonder "Did we just get punked?" It happens.
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
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.
Max Meiners — He got the last laugh
Max is an awesome son. In his role as a TV director, he has access to the intercom system that plays into the earpieces worn by TV reporters. Several years ago I was standing out in the rain waiting to go on live TV when my son's voice popped in my earpiece. "Hey Dad," Max said. "Do you remember all those times we were driving to school and you would point to guys working out in the bad weather? You always said that was a lesson about staying in school so that I'd get a good job working indoors someday." As the rain continued pouring, I waited for his last line. "Who's the smart guy now?"