2010′s been a crazy year here at The ‘Ville Voice & Page One. Thought it’d be a good idea to take a look back at the most-read stories of from the past 12 months. Dear John Boel: Please Let Us Get You Help & John Boel Is Finally Out At WLKY [November 8 & November [...]

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News came nearly a year ago that former WBKI host and VP Dan Spangler was suing the station for discrimination. I hear there’s something in the works on that front but no one wants to talk on-the-record about it. Now, via the WBKI website, we learn that Craig Hoffman (many remember him from his days [...]

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Remember Dan Spangler, former host of Louisville Live on WBKI? (We were a part of that fancy teevee program for a while – Julie Smith of Southern Belles fame is now the host) Spangler was oddly canned from the station in June after helping to lead the station through a number of successes. Then the [...]

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We heard a funny story this morning. The “big” storm that hit the East End last night apparently did some damage to the signal emanating from WBKI, the CW station. Around 7:30 last night, viewers were treated to dead air instead of TMZ. A message came on the screen from Insight saying, “One moment please. [...]

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Louisville Loves Lawyers: U of L has spent $360,000 attempting to shield donations from public scrutiny. It lost. And now that the list is public, there’s no harm to the school. Anybody want to explain who was in charge of the decision to fight the C-J’s open records request? [Courier] There’s Crazy, and Then There’s [...]

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The local sports programming airing on WBKI-TV, the CW affiliate here, has been canceled. The last show of “Dave and Sports” with Dave Ragone aired this morning. Dugan Ryan, the executive producer of the program, will host the final edition of what’s been known as “The Freak Show” tonight. Even though former host John Renshaw [...]

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West Wings It: Jean West hosted the CW Louisville Live morning show today. A good move. She’s just filling in until Craig Hoffman returns, she says. A Conspiracy Theory: Let’s connect the dots between Jerry Abramson, the downtown arena, the Water Company site, Cordish, gaming, Steve Beshear, his old law firm. Can you find a [...]

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The new owners of CW affiliate WBKI-TV, Iowa-based Fusion Communications, fired station manager and Louisville Live morning host Dan Spangler on Tuesday. Yesterday, they notified us, through Craig Hoffman, that they no longer want a ‘Ville Voice/Page One segment on the morning show. Hoffman gave no specific reason for the change, mumbling something about the [...]

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The experiment that brought a couple of local sports radio shows to television on the CW is about to come to an end. Calling it a business decision, Craig Hoffman said today that the two shows will be off the schedule by July 4. Hoffman, the station’s community relations director, said the station is discussing [...]

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Dan Spangler, the WBKI station manager and host of the local morning show Louisville Live, was dismissed from both positions yesterday by the station’s new ownership group, Fusion Communications. Spangler said that about 4:30 yesterday, he was told that he was being let go due to budgetary considerations and asked to leave immediately. Craig Hoffman, [...]

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