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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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! Apple [...]

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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 [...]

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This week Rick hits with the latest Jerry Abramson rumors, drama with the University of Louisville, Daniel Mongiardo’s faux poll picked apart by the media, the controversy in J-town, Jack Conway’s latest and some juicy CW gossip. Check it out.

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The new owners of WBKI, the CW affiliate in Louisville, have completed an agreement to move to Kaden Towers, the 16-story landmark building in the Dupont area. Construction on the 7th Floor space will begin soon and the station expects to move by September. The new space will include a studio and a kitchen, both [...]

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Win free Bats tickets, hiking & biking, Jerry Abramson and the housing scandal, illegal secret meetings, lawsuits against the University of Louisville, former Lexington Mayor Teresa Isaac’s involvement in myriad scandals (See that, TI? Internets, television and radio – we won’t shut up), the Lexington Library and crazy corrupt spending sprees (there’s a former Library [...]

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Now that was quite a Memorial Day weekend. You got out there and set attendance records, and got some yardwork done too. And at the risk of going all “Possibility City” on you, it was a great time to live here. The crowd estimate for the Mayor’s Hike & Bike was about 2,000, though one [...]

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Hot, Hot, Hot and Air Quality Alerts. A power outage over in Jake’s neighborhood. Belles On: Sorry, I don’t have anything to say about American Idol. But the Southern Belles reality TV series premieres tonight at 10 on SOAPnet, #75 on your Insight system. Here’s something on it from a TV industry site: . . [...]

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A new article in the TV Newsday trade mag explains why Fusion Communications of Iowa decided to buy Louisville’s CW affiliate — it thinks it can make money. The mag quotes Fusion partner Jeff Lyle, saying “We’re looking for stations where there’s revenue, growth potential and owners who are motivated to sell.” In other words, [...]

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This week Rick gives away free tickets to the Kentucky Reggae Festival, discusses corrupt Louisville Mayor Jerry Abramson, former Lt. Governor Steve Henry and his decades-long campaign finance mess, Governor Steve Beshear and gambling and the thick skulls in Frankfort.

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