Just figured out why Dan Spangler was really canned from WBKI.
This:
FROM THE WBKI FAKEBOOK

It’s because he wouldn’t dress like that and dance to Beyonce’s Single Ladies.
UPDATE: Woopsiedaisy. Looks like the station nixed their fancy sexytime pics from Fakebook. What a shame.

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I’m baaaaack. Miss me?
Remember the Democratic Caucus Director of the Metro Council?
Remember that hot mess a few months ago?
Here’s a refresher:

Why David Tandy Won’t Be Louisville’s Mayor [July 31]
Regular Frankfort Rumor Mill Round-Up [August 3]
Pay Disparity Within Metro Council Caucus [August 5]
David Tandy Thinks He’s Running for Mayor [August 16]

Well… Council went into [...]

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This seems to be a year of departures on local TV, but none can match the sendoff WAVE-TV has given Tom Wills after four decades as the city’s senior meteorologist.
WAVE has given Wills an entire week of tributes, bringing back former personalities (this morning it was ex-anchor Julie Nelson, now in Minneapolis) to record memories. [...]

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Two Words — Golden Poo: Who do you think is most likely to run afoul of the law? Just look at the possibilities. [Golden Poo]
And to Think They Want to Play a Media Team in Hoops: Check out this photo of the Metro Council contingent touring the arena site. David Tandy told me this morning [...]

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Sexploits in Sports: Eric Crawford pointed out that the hottest video on the Internet over the weekend was a peephole shot that might have been sexy ESPN reporter Erin Andrews – naked. Which gave the paper on excuse to include a giant photo of her on his blog, while Crawford wrote about what an invasion [...]

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We’re always picking apart press releases, but this one we got yesterday from the Greater Louisville Sports Commission gets a nomination for our “Phony Quote Hall of Fame.”
As you probably know and we’ve chronicled, just-released chief Diane McGraw was unceremoniously fired in a meeting with Board Chair Steve Higdon upon her return from vacation. Higdon, [...]

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Diane McGraw, executive director of the Greater Louisville Sports Commission, is out. As you remember, the ‘Ville Voice obtained an e-mail McGraw sent detailing her strained relationship with Convention and Visitors Bureau chief Jim Wood July 6.
In addition to the public embarrassment caused by the e-mail, McGraw included a reference to the PGA Championship announcement [...]

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Reading about all the scandals coming out of Lexington involving lavish spending by executives at the airport, KACo, the Kentucky League of Cities and the public library, skeptics like us were starting to wonder what you have to do get fired in a public position.
Sure, some housecleaning has been done at the airport, but how [...]

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Stuff I Didn’t Know: As a public service to you, I listened to the new talk station today, and learned from Michael Savage (Noon – 3) that Pres. Obama is taking our guns, socializing our health care system, and is part of a plot by outsiders to take down America. Then Glenn Beck (3-6 p.m.) [...]

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While we’re waiting for word about layoffs at the Courier-Journal, Gannett’s operation in Cincinnati is being hit hard. The 10-person staff at CiN Weekly, the weekly entertainment paper (Velocity equivalent) was let go, as was the Enquirer’s editorial page editor.
The weekly is apparently being re-branded as MetroMix, a move already made in other Gannett markets, [...]

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