Television
Meiners has appeared on WHAS-TV since 1985 as a feature reporter, interviewer, live commentator, and magazine show host. For the past 15 years, Meiners has appeared at different locations every Friday morning on Good Morning Kentuckiana, the early morning news lead-in to ABC-TV’s Good Morning America. He now co-hosts Great Day Live! weekday mornings at 9 on WHAS-TV, a show that earned a first place rating in its time slot from its debut. Meiners hosted the Rick Pitino coach’s show from 2001–2004 on WDRB-TV, then switching with the university contract to WHAS-11 from 2005 to 2010. Meiners resumed hosting in 2012.
During the 2008–09 college basketball season, Meiners and Pitino created disruptive live interviews during halftime of University of Louisville games. Pitino would either bristle at Meiners’ questions or mock his clothing instead of talking about the game at hand. The two finally struck pay dirt when their halftime farce was reported on ESPN’s Sportscenter broadcast in December 2008.
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