50 years of Terry Meiners radio bits

Actors Patrick Duffy (Dallas, Step by Step) and Linda Purl (Happy Days, The Office, Matlock) visited with Terry Meiners at WHAS studios to reflect on funny and poignant moments in their careers. "Bobby Ewing" explains his shocking reincarnation in the shower scene on Dallas, his respect for Larry "J.R. Ewing" Hagman, and his latest legacy contribution. Linda Purl, who is Patrick Duffy's partner in...

Shirley Q LIquor works at the Fingernail Hut down the street from WHAS studios. She often "lets herself in" to Terry's car where she thumps B-96 Radio and smokes clove cigarettes while talking to friends on a burner phone. How can this be legal?

Simon T Meiners, communications and research specialist at Louisville's Frazier History Museum, chats it up with his dad Terry Meiners on WHAS Radio. Simon's freeform delivery of Kentucky historical facts is incredible. Remember Encyclopedia Brown? Simon Meiners makes him seem forgetful and uninformed! Here's the blog post site referenced by proud dad Terry Meiners:  theroyaltourblog.com Share Sha...

When Terry Meiners quit his job at WQMF in 1985, he had already worked a deal with WHAS Radio. His bosses at WQMF new right away what was up. One of the WQMF owners called Terry just as he arrived home after resigning. Frank "Bo" Wood screamed at Terry "You're going to W-F'n-H-A-S and they'll fire you in 6 months. They're just trying to bust up our momentum (at WQMF)." I wasn't allowed to say anyt...

The University of Louisville basketball fan base is spiraling after another beatdown loss, this time to Duke. Just as UK fans turned on Mark Pope after he lost a few games (Louisville, Michigan State, UNC, and Gonzaga), now some unhinged U of L fans claim head coach Pat Kelsey is on the "hot seat" as though his job is on shaky ground. Terry Meiners offers a belated musical Christmas card to Univer...

The University of Kentucky basketball team has had back-to-back amazing comeback victories so now The Beasman claims that he's always loved Mark Pope and never doubted him for a second! NOT TRUE! Now Beasman wants to complete the weekend with a delicious defeat for Kentucky's "arch enema" Indiana Hoosiers football in their national championship game versus Miami. COUCHES WILL BURN IN LEXINGTON if...

Greg Hahn is back in The Ville to sling barbs and self-deprecating humor from the stage at The Caravan in Mid City Mall. Greg and Terry Meiners chopped it up on life's challenges and inevitable romantic heartbreak. He's still in fifth gear EVERY WAKING MOMENT. The boy doesn't slow down! Shows: Friday & Saturday night at The Caravan, Mid City Mall on Bardstown Road in the Highlands

The Beasman is severely depressed after Mark Pope's Kentucky Wildcats lost another game, this time to hapless Missouri. He fears the S.E.C. will drop UK and replace them with the stinky Cardinal birds of Loserville. Slick Rick Buteeno is the real snake behind UK's precipitous fall. Beasman explains it all. NOPE TO POPE! NOPE TO POPE! Call him Kinny Pope cuz he sucks like Kinny Payne done to them n...

All 42 of The Show With No Name's revered BEAVER BITS are included on this site. Scroll down to find the others. Here is the very first episode that originally aired in September 1983 on WQMF-FM. The Ward Cleaver family of the 1980s, portrayed by the cast listed below, was significantly different than the wholesome Cleaver family on TV in the 1950s. In episode 1, Ward is an absentee father. June i...

ABC News correspondent Alex Stone brings shocking news about the quality of water on various U.S. airlines. You're not going to look at another cup of airplane coffee in the same way ever again. My advice? Guzzle water before boarding the airline and wear an adult diaper instead of using the airplane's skeezy bathroom. Plus, do you work with people who walk out of the office bathroom stall and the...

This 2002 WHAS Radio compilation features various characters talking sports, politics, and culture. Plus, the real T-Bar-V theme is included, sung by its writer Randy Atcher the singing cowboy. "I'm gonna hang up and lissen to your ain-ser!" Dave Baker and Oscar "Old Man" Combs take summer calls from bored U uh Kay fans. The Beasman checks in a few times to rail about U of Smell's ineptitude and T...

WHAS Radio issued a "Best of" compilation in 1993 to raise funds for the Crusade for Children. Terry Meiners and Randy Davidson pumped out parodies of UK fan CAT CALLS, Howard Schnellenberger, Denny Crum, The Beasman, Governor Wallace Wilkinson, Martha's Army, Mitch McConnell, Mayor for Life Jerry Abramson, Ralph Hacker (BEST DRESSED MAN ON RADIO), Ronnie O'Bryan at Graceland, cheap boss Bob Scher...

REAL TIME host Bill Maher made another visit to the Terry Meiners Show in 2012 in the midst of the Obama re-election cycle vs. Mitt Romney. He said he's "too toxic" for President Obama to appear on his show despite his regular visits to other late night comedy shows. Maher jabbed away at conservative voters, the empty suit of Romney-palooza, and defending Rush  Limbaugh's right to deliver his view...

An 840 WHAS Christmas tradition: Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol original 1939 broadcast featuring Lionel Barrymore and directed by Orson Welles. 

I am proudly connected to the Hometown Heroes campaign celebrating various luminaries smiling from building banners. Muhammad Ali, Dr. Kevin Cosby, John Asher, Jennifer Lawrence, Will Stein, My Morning Jacket, Jack Harlow, and so many other celebs with local ties appear all around town. But there is only 1 Steve Bass, who quietly funds and organizes a myriad of philanthropic pursuits. He also chai...

Episode 26 of the podcast INTERRUPTED by Matt Jones features Terry Meiners in an enlightening and emotional conversation.

Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg popped by the WHAS Radio studio to declare December 8, 2025 as Terry Meiners Day, an honor awarded to acknowledge Terry's 40th anniversary as afternoon host on WHAS. Thanks, Mayor! 

WHAS11 news anchor Doug Proffitt popped by to wish Terry Meiners a Happy 40th Anniversary at WHAS Radio and they fell into a history lesson of the TV and radio stations.

The University of Kentucky basketball fan base is spiraling after losing to Louisville, Michigan State, and North Carolina in the first few weeks of the season. Some of the most impatient fans are already hinting that Mark Pope should be on the "hot seat" as though his job is on shaky ground. Terry Meiners offers a musical Christmas card to University of Louisville fans as they sit back and relish...

The Beasman is fearful that Will Stein, a former Louisville Cardinal, is being secretly planted as the Kentucky Wildcats football coach to wreck the program just like Kenny Payne did to the Cardinals. You mad, bro? Oh...he mad!

It's Thanksgiving time again. Let's make a smart move to heal a family rift. It's simple. It's quick. And you have control over its methodology. Let's go do it. ALSO: CheersI Our media buddy Angie Fenton is cancer free!!! Let's all celebrate Angie's newest chapter on life and send love to all who are wrestling with health challenges. HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO ALL, AND TO ALL A GOOD HOLIDAY SEASON!

Tina Knowles is featured in a Peacock documentary on Black jockeys and cowboys. Knowles references her 2024 visit to the 150th Kentucky Derby and how she was horribly mistreated on the red carpet when a White couple was ushered in ahead of her. THE HORROR! Terry explains the red carpet chaos and adds another dimension to Tina Knowles' day that likely explains her sour experience. Race was not a fa...

Former WHAS Radio news anchor Scott Jennings is now known worldwide for his CNN political commentary and analysis. Scott and Terry Meiners discussed the tensions at the CNN desk, President Trump's global impact, angry liberals, whether Scott will run for Senate or switch to CBS News, and many other topics. Do angry liberals scream at him in public? Scott tells the tale in this WHAS interview. Scot...

Our poor buddy The Beasman has been slobber-knocked again. Last week it was the demonic LOO-vul Cardinals that had the audaceration to beat the Wildcats. Now those Michigan State Sparkys done thumped Mark Pope's faltering Wildcats and statewide panic is on full throttle. The N.I.L. fund is $22 million deep into a team of wussy players who can't guard a closet door!  WE IS THE CAYUTS! WE IS KENTUCK...

James "Murr" Murray from Impractical Jokers is in town for 5 shows at Louisville Comedy Club. Using his hit TV show's technique, Murr will send at least one audience member out into the street to follow his commands through an earpiece. Always comedy gold! Murr told Terry Meiners an awesome story about the most outrageous prank he played on his showmate (who thought Murr was being punished). It's...