50 years of Terry Meiners radio bits

Just Ron Clay and Terry Meiners being silly recapping their first full year on WQMF Radio. part 2 of 4 photo: At Trinity High School (1983)

Just Ron Clay and Terry Meiners being silly recapping their first full year on WQMF Radio. part 3 of 4 photo: OFF THE WALL, by Gary Chapman, The Courier Journal (1985)

Just Ron Clay and Terry Meiners being silly recapping their first full year on WQMF Radio. part 4 of 4 photo: The Toy Tiger

Here's a WQMF aircheck of Ron Clay & Terry Meiners on The Show With No Name a few months after the morning team switched from WLRS in January.  photo: Toy Tiger mud wrestling featuring Ron Clay and Terry Meiners vs. Sister Mary Holy Water and Sister Uptight

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, J...

Kentucky's strong anti-discrimination laws are in place following decades of advocacy work by the Fairness Campaign. Its executive director Chris Hartman visited 840WHAS to discuss the recent Kentucky state legislature's override of Gov. Andy Beshear's support of trans medical care and his aversion to the concept of conversion therapy. We also discussed online discussions of whether the LGB commun...

LSU basketball coach Kim Mulkey can't help be be irascible after a loss, this time sniping at a young reporter who asked about her team flaming out at the Elite Eight position two years in a row. TCU's Hailey Van Lith is leading her third team to the Elite Eight (she helped Louisville and LSU in previous years) and shares a profound response to hater comments. Actor Richard Chamberlain, God rest h...

My niece Addie Meiners happened to walk by me at Keeneland in April 2019 where I was broadcasting my show. She did a quick interview about her final days at the University of Kentucky and how she envisioned her professional future. It's pretty close to reality! Addie is now a prominent reporter on WLKY-TV in Louisville with more goals ahead. So proud of her! 

Terry discusses local officials touting the expansion of Waterfront Park into WEST LOU-UH-VUL, a name we stole from a town in western Kentucky. (If you say WAH-FAH instead of WiFi, then Loo-uh-vul fits right into your Jethro laden elocution skeelz!). In Washington, members of Congress went on the attack against left-leaning NPR. Jim Jordan and Jamie Comer tried to derail NPR CEO Katherine Maher. S...

Attorneys for Jonah Bevin, who asked Jefferson Family Court for an EPO against his parents, Gov. Matt Bevin and Glenna Bevin, joined me on 840WHAS to explain Jonah's path forward. A settlement was reached today for Jonah and his adoptive parents. Jonah's attorneys Dawn J Post and Melina Hettiaratchi have the debrief on today's court activities and the limitations placed upon Matt and Glenna Bevin,...

A soundbite from Terry Meiners appearing on ESPN's Outside the Lines show with host Bob Ley during Louisville's scandalous departure of Rick Pitino. It became a pile of bricks that fans could no longer push through. (2017)

A soundbite from Terry Meiners appearing on ESPN's Outside the Lines show with host Bob Ley during Louisville's scandalous departure of Rick Pitino (2017)

Rick Pitino's #2 seed St. John's Red Storm was expected to run right toward the Final Four the weekend after next. One problem. John Calipari's unheralded Arkansas Razorbacks somehow beat Kansas and earned a matchup with Pitino's Johnnies. Cal & Rick. No love. No mercy. No harm. No foul. Incredible drama on many levels beyond basketball. Arkansas advances to the Sweet 16. St. John's comes to a...

After his NCAA Tournament loss to Florida, UConn head coach Dan Hurley cried about bowing out with honor and dignity just moments after cursing about the referees. Borderline personality disorder much? Hurley, a bald version of narcissist Kim Mulkey, demands the spotlight, berates colleagues, derides opposing fans, and loves to hear himself talk. Just ask him! Hurley was a prime candidate to repla...

St. John's head basketball coach Rick Pitino was reluctant to answer reporter questions about the Big East Player of the Year stuck on the bench while Pitino's team lost to John Calipari's Arkansas Razorbacks in the NCAA Tourney.  No clear answer was given, just pushback from Coach P. Also...was Maryland's buzzer beater a result of an uncalled traveling violation? Bettors are either thrilled or en...

My awesome son Simon T Meiners is a walking, talking Kentucky historian and TikTok celeb. Simon has traveled throughout the commonwealth to learn and listen about Kentucky's rich history and hardy people. He's a research specialist for Frazier History Museum and an enthusiastic University of Louisville sports fan. We discussed the Louisville Cardinals' tall task in the NCAA tournament, buoyed by t...

Steve Taylor, assistant director of the Louisville Zoo, made friends with elephant Punch back in 1975. It was Steve's new job and he had no idea he'd stay for half a century. Kyle Shepherd, a 14 year Louisville Zoo associate, joined Steve on WHAS Radio to tell the tale of the upcoming departure of both of our beloved elephants Mikki and Punch. There is an upcoming public celebration for Mikki and...

Long ago WHAS marketing whiz Peppy Martin eventually settled for a political run in 2023. Hey, why not run for governor? She arrived nearly two hours ahead of her interview time and sat quietly outside my studio. Once on the air, it was gloves off for Gov. Andy Beshear and any other Democrats who dare to differ with Peppy's views! That's not Peppy in the photo but a close facsimile. 

One of the worst moments in broadcasting is having to announce the death of one of your friends. The numbness of the loss takes hold but the message must be delivered to the audience. Junior Bridgeman, a colossal figure in Louisville philanthropy, a servant of the Lord, and gracious community leader, was struck by a medical crisis at a public luncheon today. He was onstage and told the assemblage...

Author and renowned caver Roger Brucker tells the tragic story of Floyd Collins, trapped in a Kentucky cave in 1925. News updates mesmerized people around the world. Even after Collins' death, the media circus continued.  Mr. Brucker co-authored TRAPPED! The Story of Floyd Collins. The book is being reissued in April around the same time as the Broadway play opens in New York. ----- book descripti...

Former TV news anchor & investigative reporter John Boel - WINNER OF 106 EMMY AWARDS! - sat down for a wide ranging conversation on life, service, peace, and journalism. He's the best of the best of the best in our media business, now heading off to retirement so that he can care for ailing family members in Wisconsin. We never got around to talking about our Green Bay Packers fandom so that w...

University of Louisville director of athletics Josh Heird discusses the watershed year ahead for NIL demands, Louisville's chances to overachieve, Pat Kelsey's contract, senior night protocols, and the women/men's ACC tournaments.

Thoroughbred racing legend Pat Day discusses his early rodeo days, wrestling matches, and other pursuits that led him to become one of the greatest jockeys in history. The Race for Grace event is set for Monday of Derby Week, April 28th at the First Turn Club at Churchill Downs. Tony Cruise, Rich Gimmel and I chop it up with Pat Day on 840WHAS

A Kentucky Lantern story by Deborah Yetter updates the odyssey of Jonah Bevin, adoptive 18-year-old son of former Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin and (now estranged) wife Glenna. Jonah describes abusive behavior at a Jamaican youth facility where he was sent several years ago. Jonah tells Yetter that his place in the blended family "just didn't work." By age 8, "I told them I didn't want to be in tha...

Jonah Bevin, the adopted son of former Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin and his (now estranged) wife Glenna, is struggling to find footing after being released from a controversial Jamaican youth facility.  Atttorney Dawn Post, a children's rights activist, has been working pro bono to help Jonah get his life back on track after the Bevins separated themselves from their adopted son. Jonah claims that...