On Friday I shared a local television tidbit. Here’s an update.
Ray D’Alessio on why he’s leaving WAVE3:
As many of my friends and family may or may not know, I have decided to leave WAVE 3 here in Louisville and return to Atlanta to be with my wife and kids. After being apart for over [...]

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Okay, okay. I get it. Everybody and their mother is freaking out over Kentucky Kingdom. Especially mayoral candidates.
Shannon White:
“As a past seasonal employee of Kentucky Kingdom, and manager of the Games Department for two years, I know the vital importance of these jobs for our economy. I encourage The Kentucky State Fair [...]

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For real. WAVE3’s Dawne Gee wins at the internet.
Check out this Tweet of hers from last night:

Somebody get her some Cake Flour, pronto!
Hope she keeps up with the Tweeting because it’s tons of fun.

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WAVE3’s Janelle MacDonald is reportedly set to replace longtime anchor Jackie Hays.
MacDonald will anchor on the teevee at 5:00 P.M. and 6:00 P.M.
Louisville wins again (in my opinion, of course)!

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Yes, we’re really proud to be the choice of LEO readers as the top local news blog, but that doesn’t mean we can’t take a little exception to some of the other choices made by readers, especially in the all-important media category. Because that’s what we do.
You should read through them all, it’s exhausting. And [...]

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Miss a few hours to do a solid for a friend, miss a lot. Big thanks to Jake for filling the gaps today. Here’s some of it, and we’ll follow up on our pile of stories ready to be written tomorrow:
New #2 at the C-J: Jean Porter is promoted to Ben Post’s positing as managing [...]

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Some of these video tributes to Tom Wills at WAVE have been downright funny.
Who knew that former Fox41 anchor Don Schroeder, who previously worked with Wills at WAVE,  was capable of such hilarity? Schroeder, who’s grown a full beard, taped his segment in front the White House, though he’s retired to Alabama. First time I’d [...]

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Gone in 50 Seconds: Fox41 got its hands on more evidence in the Karen Sypher case. The station played a tape of some of the :50 of phone calls from Lester Goetzinger to the Coach Rick, in which Goetzinger threatens to go public with info that somehow, is still not public. Fox41 was able to [...]

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We’ve wisely scheduled some late Friday afternoon bidness meetings.
An Actual Pee Alert: Our favorite news story of the week.  A janitor in Clark County was caught by a hidden camera peeing on a court reporter’s chair. He’s facing some sort of charge. [WHAS-TV]
Quarter Expired: Another long-time local restaurant has closed up. Check out the Eats [...]

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Here at the V.V., we have a soft spot for the Louisville Magazine’s Best of Louisville Awards, since they picked Jake and me as Best Bloggers last year (nothing in the category this year, so we’re still the champs). But there’s still room to question the readers’ choices in media categories, especially TV. The July [...]

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