Terry Meiners

Terry Meiners

Terry Allen Meiners, born January 22, 1957, is an American radio and television personality on WHAS (AM) and WHAS-TV in Louisville, Kentucky. On radio, The Terry Meiners Show has aired weekday afternoons from 3–7 since 1985. Meiners is known for broadcasting impersonations of prominent local citizens, and his satirical interviews of eclectic news figures, comedians, film and television stars, and politicians. In a region that thrives on college sports, Meiners lampoons the flightiness of University of Louisville (U of L) Cardinals fans and the zealotry of University of Kentucky (UK) Wildcats fans. Many of Meiners’ fabricated callers are dimwitted sports fans delivering a tirade on the air, who then close with the contradictory statement “I’ll hang up and listen to your answer.”

Additional Meiners radio sketches include conversations with imaginary characters like a street-tough problem solver named Trubba Man, an arrogant Hollywood has-been, a delusional Elvis impersonator, a pair of foulmouthed morning deejays who speak in unison, and "Beasman", a parody of former UK basketball coach Joe B. Hall.

Several part-time voice impersonators have worked with Meiners over the years, including actor Jeff Ketterman, singer Laura Cox, writer Laura Johnston, singer Randy Davidson, and comedian Chuck Knipp (Shirley Q .Liquor).

Meiners is also known for his offbeat television interviews with sometimes tipsy fans at sporting events such as the Kentucky Derby and Kentucky Oaks. Meiners is a co-host of Great Day Live (news, knowledge, and nonsense) with WHAS-TV news anchor Rachel Platt, weekday mornings on WHAS-TV. "Great Day Live" debuted with No. 1 ratings in its time slot. Meiners' Friday television interviews on the early show Good Morning Kentuckiana often take a comic twist.

Pat Forde, a Louisville resident who was once a sportswriter for the city's daily newspaper, The Courier-Journal, and now writes for Yahoo! Sports, has called Meiners "a skilled smart aleck, a local legend who is able to skewer almost everyone without making too many enemies."