Terry Meiners details his tense 1985 departure from WQMF's "The Show With No Name"

Terry Meiners details his tense 1985 departure from WQMF's "The Show With No Name"

Author: NewsRadio 840 WHAS (WHAS-AM) July 1, 2025 Duration: 41:36
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

Dive into the archives of a Louisville broadcasting legend with 50 years of Terry Meiners radio bits. This podcast is a curated journey through five decades of radio, pulling directly from Terry's personal audio library. You'll hear the actual comedy sketches, spontaneous news interviews, and candid celebrity conversations that defined his career across stations like WHAS, WQMF, WLRS, and WKQQ. Each episode serves as an audio time capsule, featuring not just Terry's iconic monologues but also the voices of the phenomenal broadcasters he shared the mic with, including Ron Clay, Randy Davidson, Mary Jeffries, Van Vance, and Cawood Ledford. It's more than a retrospective; it's a living history of local and pop culture, told through the cracks of the studio door and the buzz of the control room. The podcast offers a rare, behind-the-scenes feel, presenting these moments as they originally aired-raw, immediate, and full of the character that made Terry Meiners a fixture on the airwaves. For anyone who lived through these broadcasts or simply appreciates the craft of radio, this collection is a masterclass in commentary and connection, all pulled from the shelf and presented for your ears today.
Author: Language: English Episodes: 100

50 years of Terry Meiners radio bits
Podcast Episodes
Terry's #1 hater declares that HE IS REPULSIVE [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 0:21
My favorite hate call popped onto the WHAS program director's voicemail around the year 2000. He forwarded it to me and said "Have fun!"It's the perfect hate call. Succinct. Mean. Pointless. When your boss laughs at your…
repeated insult TERRY MEINERS IS REPULSIVE [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 0:08
An important edit on the greatest hate call Terry's WHAS boss every received. It will forever remain in the WHAS Radio Hall of Fame!