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WHAS Cancels Sunday Morning Talkshow

You know, the ville voice used to be a great website while Rick Redding was running it. I checked it every day. But since Jake Payne took over it's nothing more than a conservative bashing site. This was the first time I had been over there in a couple of years, and it seems to be getting even more shrill.
 
Doesn't surprise me. That is the only thing worth listening to on WHAS any more. I guess I will be done with them for good now. I used to listen to Joe E on Sunday morning as I enjoy his program and he has a good radio voice. I wonder why WHAS thinks it is a sin to have anything local when WLW in Cincinnati is all local (and has live news and weather around the clock)? Both are owned by CC and are within 110 miles of each other yet are like night and day. Maybe Joe E could do a show on WLW either remote from Louisville or move to Cincinnati. I know he is a Reds fan so he would fit right in on WLW.
 
The Sunday Morning Talk Show's start was out of the blue. Doug McElvein just stopped playing music and solicited phone calls, I want to say the program started around 1984.

It's a shame to see it end, it was the last vestige of the 84 WHAS we know and love.
 
Bengalsfan said:
You know, the ville voice used to be a great website while Rick Redding was running it. I checked it every day. But since Jake Payne took over it's nothing more than a conservative bashing site. This was the first time I had been over there in a couple of years, and it seems to be getting even more shrill.


I agree 100%
 
Dan76 said:
Bengalsfan said:
You know, the ville voice used to be a great website while Rick Redding was running it. I checked it every day. But since Jake Payne took over it's nothing more than a conservative bashing site. This was the first time I had been over there in a couple of years, and it seems to be getting even more shrill.


I agree 100%

I pretty much abandoned it when he started using the liberal smear for Tea Partiers. I realized then it was all about Jake pushing his agenda, not about "a new and enlightening experience, a new way of looking at what’s going on in our city". Sad.
 
Bengalsfan said:
Dan76 said:
Bengalsfan said:
You know, the ville voice used to be a great website while Rick Redding was running it. I checked it every day. But since Jake Payne took over it's nothing more than a conservative bashing site. This was the first time I had been over there in a couple of years, and it seems to be getting even more shrill.



I agree 100%

I pretty much abandoned it when he started using the liberal smear for Tea Partiers. I realized then it was all about Jake pushing his agenda, not about "a new and enlightening experience, a new way of looking at what’s going on in our city". Sad.


Yes, Rick was a liberal, but not an obnoxious liberal. I used to read his blog on Louisville Mojo until they did away with it.
 
I, too, followed The Ville Voice until Rick left and I discovered how crappy Jake is in comparison (and how left). I followed Rick over to Mojo, and now on to WLKY, where he brought along a similar group of bloggers to Mojo's format.

http://ulocal.wlky.com/service/displayKickPlace.kickAction?u=24234607&as=62916&b=


Any speculation on what might become of Joe's old slot? Any word on if Joe will start a Sunday Morning Show on his new outlet (970 WGTK)? My guess for WHAS's Sunday mornings will be a "Best of Mandy Connell" format, but who knows...maybe more syndicated stuff.
 
IUSradiofan said:
I, too, followed The Ville Voice until Rick left and I discovered how crappy Jake is in comparison (and how left). I followed Rick over to Mojo, and now on to WLKY, where he brought along a similar group of bloggers to Mojo's format.

http://ulocal.wlky.com/service/displayKickPlace.kickAction?u=24234607&as=62916&b=


Any speculation on what might become of Joe's old slot? Any word on if Joe will start a Sunday Morning Show on his new outlet (970 WGTK)? My guess for WHAS's Sunday mornings will be a "Best of Mandy Connell" format, but who knows...maybe more syndicated stuff.


Thanks for posting that link to Rick's blog! I had no idea he was working for WLKY. I will post that link to my favorites.
 
IUSradiofan said:
I, too, followed The Ville Voice until Rick left and I discovered how crappy Jake is in comparison (and how left). I followed Rick over to Mojo, and now on to WLKY, where he brought along a similar group of bloggers to Mojo's format.

http://ulocal.wlky.com/service/displayKickPlace.kickAction?u=24234607&as=62916&b=

Thanks for the link IUS. I went to mojo for the first time in a year only to discover it has embraced what it really was all along, just a hook-up site, and gotten rid of all the other content. I was wondering where Rick had gone to. Instead of listening to people complain about the quality of the site, Jake just tells them to f' off. I wonder how many people have, doesn't seem to be as active anymore.
 
Whatever the "new exciting direction" is for Sunday mornings, you can bet it will be cheap. Off goes WHAS again. No point in listening to junk.

R.I.P. Sunday Morning Talk Show
 
WildcatGuy said:
KyDXIn said:
Whatever the "new exciting direction" is for Sunday mornings, you can bet it will be cheap. Off goes WHAS again. No point in listening to junk.

R.I.P. Sunday Morning Talk Show

Looks like we now know the plan:

http://www.whas11.com/home/Elliott-kicks-off-radio-show-WHAS-AM-makes-more-changes-103402404.html

FTA

840AM is cancelling its long-running Sunday morning talk show after 25 years. Terry Meiners will host the last one on September 26. Meiners helped kick the show off on its first Sunday 25 years ago.

Actually, not true. The show predated Meiners appearance by almost two years. Prior to taking a job Sunday Mornings (5/84) I can remember listening to the show. So the start was early 1984 if not late 1983.
 
Hi,

I originated the show while trying to find something different to do during my regularly scheduled time period on
Sunday morning. Then WHAS P.D. Skip Essick and I kicked around some ideas and he allowed me to start taking calls.

Terry is going to host the final edition of the program this Sunday and with any luck I'll join him shortly after 10 AM eastern time to talk about The Sunday Morning Talk Show.

Doug McElvein
 
Dbmcelvein said:
Hi,

I originated the show while trying to find something different to do during my regularly scheduled time period on
Sunday morning. Then WHAS P.D. Skip Essick and I kicked around some ideas and he allowed me to start taking calls.

Terry is going to host the final edition of the program this Sunday and with any luck I'll join him shortly after 10 AM eastern time to talk about The Sunday Morning Talk Show.

Doug McElvein
Its good to see you here. Many of us were saddened to see you leave Louisville, but it was probably for the best. You always had a professional program, but you probably would have been downsized if you had stayed at WHAS. Do you remember an approximate date of when you played your last Boy George record at WHAS?
 
It will be great to hear Doug McElvein again this Sunday morning for the last time. I can still remember when WHAS was ALL live and local. Wayne Perkey, Jack Fox, Doug McElvein, Terry Miners, Van Vance, Milton Metz, and of course Joe Donovan (midnight to 5am was my favorite time to listen). I used to listen to WHAS all the time while in high school and college until about 1993 or so when things began to go down hill.

I remember Liz Curtis coming to our high school in 1988 to give a speech and do a question and answer session about radio. She was great! I wonder what Liz is doing today? I remember listening to her play the oldies on WAKY and doing time on WHAS as well playing current AC hits. Sure doesn't seem like 25 years ago.
 
Like much of radio these days, WHAS has turned into a true trainwreck. I logged off 840 when they killed Joe Donovan's all-night oldies show about 15 years ago. It's mostly all "canned" anymore and news coverage is an after-thought. What makes it even worse, their "news department" loads our local WLAP up with canned news trying to fool listeners here in Lexington with their 24 Hour Live & Local news (NOT!!!!) drop-ins. And when bad weather is in the area after 6 PM...."You're on Your Own!"
 
storrs19 said:
I remember Liz Curtis coming to our high school in 1988 to give a speech and do a question and answer session about radio. She was great! I wonder what Liz is doing today? I remember listening to her play the oldies on WAKY and doing time on WHAS as well playing current AC hits. Sure doesn't seem like 25 years ago.
Liz is an incredibly successful author and motivational speaker. Check out her website:

http://lizcurtishiggs.com/
 
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