If you think Louisville’s own Rick Bozich and Pat Forde can be half as entertaining as the guys on ESPN’s Pardon the Interrpution, then a new show on cable might be worth watching. Bozich and Forde will host a new bi-weekly program, Page One Sports, on Insight Cable’s ICN2. The first one, airing July 31 [...]

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This whole Louisville Arena issue has been a fiasco from the start, and as I write this, the Committee is meeting, hearing chairman Jim Host report on how wonderfully received his group’s efforts are going with the NCAA. In fact, I’m sure he’s talking about all the really cool NCAA championships lining up to compete [...]

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Tonight, Al Smith is back at the helm of his baby, “Comment on Kentucky” on KET. He’s announced that he’s leaving the show this fall, and John David Dyche wrote his C-J column this week on the candidates to succeed him. Among those candidates is my pal Mark Hebert, who wrote some insightful words about [...]

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This week the Kentucky Enquirer’s Pat Crowley made some state Republicans happy by writing about the heat Jonathan Miller is taking for working one political job (Democratic Party Chairman) while holding one political office (State Treasurer). In doing so, Crowley gave Republican Party Chair Steve Robertson a soapbox on which to needle Miller, especially after [...]

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Will Wolford is looking for a little love and a little money, and if he doesn’t get it, he’ll take one of the city’s only hopes for a long-term professional sports tenant for its big new downtown arena elsewhere. Wolford wants Louisville to embrace his team the way the community of Green Bay loves its [...]

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The challenge facing new WHAS-TV general manager Mark Pimental got a little bit tougher the day after he was announced as the new G.M. — reporter and part-time anchor Tim Seymour accepted an anhoring job in Cedar Rapids. Seymour, who has been at WHAS-TV for four years, had seen his anchoring duties cut back when [...]

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News that LEO, the city’s alternative weekly, is pulling the plug on its blogging experiment is disheartening. In a final post dated July 18, Stephen George blamed “other priorities” for the demise of the entertaining blog, in which George almost singlehandedly broke stories and provided some entertaining prose. Add in the efforts of editor Cary [...]

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Mark Pimental is being introduced today as the new general manager at WHAS-TV, and will begin his new job Aug. 9. Pimental is currently the GM at Lexington’s WTVQ-TV, also an ABC affiliate. Pimental has been in Lexington four years, and before that was a GM in Richmond, Va. and Huntsville, Ala. Pimental appears to [...]

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More bad news for the newspaper business. In a lengthy press release today, the E.W. Scripps Co. announced it will cease publication of the afternoon newspapers — The Kentucky Post and the Cincinnati Post — at the end of the year. The demise of the paper put 52 newsroom employees out of a job. Scripps [...]

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The assumption that Gov. Ernie Fletcher has been closing the gap in the Governor’s Race with Democratic challenger Steve Beshear is not true, according to the Survey USA poll released today. Beshear maintains a 59-36 lead over Fletcher among 560 likely voters, with 5 percent undecided. That’s just slightly less than Beshear’s lead in a [...]

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