When the lights went out, WHAS switched to HOSTAGE RADIO

When the lights went out, WHAS switched to HOSTAGE RADIO

Author: NewsRadio 840 WHAS (WHAS-AM) April 5, 2025 Duration: 6:29
During a heavy storm on April 4, 2025, parts of downtown Louisville suffered a massive power failure. WHAS studios are in the Fourth Street Live entertainment complex so everything went dark at 5:22 PM, the middle of drive time.

Some way, somehow, the microphones remained online and connected to the system that feeds the WHAS transmitter in Eastwood, Kentucky.

Soooo....Terry Meiners, Paul Miles, Joe Lincoln, and Billy Rutledge carried out our duties in the dark from the WHAS panic room in the back of the building.

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

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