Twin brothers in Toledo, Ohio were born into a rich media family that owns Block Communications. Family members have been fighting for power and riches from the company their parents started. So now Gray Television, which owns WAVE3 in Louisville, is buying Block Communications, which owns WDRB and WBKI. That means Louisville will see a merger of assets from all three stations and the inevitable RIF (reduction in force).

Good luck to all involved. 

Terry Meiners discusses the similarities between the Toledo family fighting with the 1980s squabbles among Louisville's Bingham family who owned The Courier-Journal, Louisville Times, WHAS11, and WHAS & WAMZ Radio.

The Bingham nepo babies fought over money and power until the patriarch sold all of the Louisville media properties for over $450 million in 1986.

Twin brothers in Toledo, Ohio were born into a rich media family that owns Block Communications. Family members have been fighting for power and riches from the company their parents started. So now Gray Television, which owns WAVE3 in Louisville, is buying Block Communications, which owns WDRB and WBKI. That means Louisville will see a merger of assets from all three stations and the inevitable RIF (reduction in force).

Good luck to all involved. 

Terry Meiners discusses the similarities between the Toledo family fighting with the 1980s squabbles among Louisville's Bingham family who owned The Courier-Journal, Louisville Times, WHAS11, and WHAS & WAMZ Radio.

The Bingham nepo babies fought over money and power until the patriarch sold all of the Louisville media properties for over $450 million in 1986.

Sometimes they hit you. Da Blues. It was tough out there for a pimple. Ron & Terry, wealthy beyond their wildest dreams, still slid into a funk now and again just because THE MUSIC DO ME WRONG!

Thank God for medication, and co-hosts like Art Linkletter who would give Ron & Terry a break from the grueling work of talking on the radio.

By the way, Diamond John wrote rubber checks to pay Mr. Linkletter. You've never heard such a tsunami of curse words come from the mouth of a beloved TV host until you followed Mr. Linkletter to the bank to watch his deposit get denied.

A fiscal tragedy, for sure.

Wino Jimmy never meant any harm. He'd sleep in the shrubbery outside of WQMF studios in sleepy downtown Jeffersonville. Occasionally he'd accidentally urinate on Ron Clay's vespa scooter but so is life!

Then...in the blink of an eye...Jimmy was gone. All of the world's biggest celebrities called The Show With No Name to express condolences. Ron & Terry were emotionally overwhelmed but still mustered the courage to come to work.

Diamond John Otting, the WQMF owner, did not allow employees to miss work just to attend funerals because "The idiot is already dead...he doesn't know whether you showed up for his funeral. NOW GET BACK TO WORK!"

We were stunned to know that Diamond John made an exception and allowed Terry to broadcast live from the Belvedere in downtown Louisville as Wino Jimmy was laid to rest in the murky Ohio River.

Touching.

Former Indiana state trooper David Camm came home from a church league basketball game to find his wife and two children shot to death in the family garage. Camm was convicted two times by Indiana courts and then ultimately acquitted after a third trial.

David Camm joined Terry Meiners on WHAS Radio to tell his story. Author Gary Dunn (The Reckoning, Part ll) joined them in the studio to dicuss the Indiana judicial system's multiple failures in pursuing this case.

The Flyover Film Festival features a wide of array of flickering images but none is more compelling than the story of Phil Sharp. He was born in a home with a dirt floor to parents who had no high school education. Sharp goes on to earn a Nobel Prize for his work on RNA splicing.

CRACKING THE CODE: Phil Sharp and the Biotech Revolution

Producer/director Bill Haney spoke with Terry Meiners about shooting this film and the challenges facing a creator in the editing process. Sharp's story is incredible, and Haney has 900 hours of film that must be whittled down to 90 minutes.

This film will be screened Sunday, July 27 at the Speed Cinema.

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Even though Senator Rand Paul just played golf with President Donald Trump, the president could not persuade Sen. Paul to vote in favor of the BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL. It passed anyway.

Sen. Paul was one of three Republican senators who voted against the BBB, and happily explained his decision on WHAS Radio.

We also discussed the benefits of tariffs (Rand Paul opposes them) and winnowing out certain undeserving Medicaid recipients, and whether Gov. Andy Beshear's claims of 35 rural hospitals is fact or hysteria.

When Terry Meiners decided to leave WQMF to do grownup radio on WHAS, it created a lot of hurt feelings from his radio partner Ron Clay, WQMF owners Diamond John Otting and WEBN's Bo Wood, plus a strange period of waiting to be pulled into the WHAS orbit.

Terry details the story in a wide ranging interview with KSR's Billy Rutledge on WKRD, July 1, 2025

Retired U.S. Air Force Brigadier General Rob Givens discusses the coordination and support involved in a massive mission like the recent B-2 bombing runs on Iran's nuclear sites. Aircraft from 3 continents came together to coordinate safety and access into and out of Iran undetected.

General Givens describes the tasks for the pilots as they spend more than 30 hours airborne to complete the mission. Plus, there's many other scenarios for decoy missions, what to do in case of attacks on the bombers, and the occasional open seas fly by activity by Russian and other hostile pilots. 

"It's hard to call it college sports anymore. It's a professional league...it's a business. Everything's going to work out great" for UofL athletics. - Tom Jurich on the changing collegiate landscape

Former University of Louisville athletics director Tom Jurich will be honored on Saturday, June 28 at 10 AM on campus. The gathering point is 2135 South Floyd Street adjacent to the Cardinal Track & Field complex.

The city of Louisville is naming a portion of Floyd Street for Jurich to acknowledge his massive contributions to the athletics department and campus facilities over a 20 year span.

The public is welcome to cheer home Tom & Terrilynn Jurich and their family, many of whom remain Louisville residents.