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 [...]
Entries Tagged as 'CW'
Remembering The Big Stories From The Past Year
December 31st, 2010 · 3 Comments
Tags: Alcohol · Anchor · Bad Behavior · Business · Charity · Chris Thieneman · Criticism · CW · Derby Festival · Francene · Mayor's Race 2010 · Metro Government · Newspaper · Radio · Rumors · Scandal · TV · University of Louisville · WLKY
Veteran TV Guy Craig Hoffman Out At WBKI
December 21st, 2010 · 3 Comments
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 [...]
Tags: CW · Media · Rumors · TV
Dan Spangler Sues Station for Discrimination
January 21st, 2010 · 11 Comments
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 [...]
Tags: Bad Behavior · CW · Discrimination · Morning Shows · TV
If a Station Went Off The Air and Nobody Was Watching…
July 30th, 2009 · 10 Comments
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. [...]
Tags: CW · TV · Weather · WHAS
No Screaming Allowed
July 14th, 2009 · 15 Comments
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 [...]
Tags: Cordish · CW · Dan Mongiardo · High School · Jack Conway · Jerry Abramson · Metro Council · Possibility City · Senate Race · Sports · University of Louisville
Dave and Freak Shows Canceled on CW
June 26th, 2009 · 6 Comments
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 [...]
Tags: CW · Morning Shows · Radio · Sports · TV
Of Long Shots and Slots
June 22nd, 2009 · 9 Comments
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 [...]
Tags: Advertising · Arena · Bad Behavior · Cordish · CW · Downtown · Gambling · Gays · High School · Indiana · Jerry Abramson · Legal · Metro Government · Sports · State Government · Steve Beshear · TARC
We’re Splitting with CW
June 19th, 2009 · 9 Comments
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 [...]
Tags: Cable · CW · Fired · Hype · Media · Morning Shows · TV · Video
Freak…and Dave, Out at CW
June 17th, 2009 · 3 Comments
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 [...]
Tags: Advertising · CW · Morning Shows · NCAA · Radio · Sports · TV · University of Kentucky · University of Louisville
CW Shafts Spangler; No More “Dan Show”
June 17th, 2009 · 15 Comments
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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