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 [...]

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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. The [...]

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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 This [...]

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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 left [...]

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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 conspiracy [...]

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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 the [...]

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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, a former [...]

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This week we’re all over the state parks giveaway/contest, Karen Sypher hypocrisy, the Javanon scandal and a BOZA resignation, the special session mess and Wendell Ford Dinner fun. Check it.

Oh, and Rick needs to quit it with letting that fancy MacBook we got him hover dangerously on the edge of a tiny table! [...]

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This week we discuss tip line bull from Metro Government that leads to private tip line drama, Jerry Abramson’s future as a non-mayor, Craig Greenberg, Greg Fischer, a Louisville Zoo exclusive, Robert Felner and leadership failures at the University of Louisville, the Courier-Journal’s lack of coverage, the Herald-Leader uncovering major spending scandals and more.
Extra-long segment! [...]

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