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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Famous quotes containing the word television:
“It is marvelous indeed to watch on television the rings of Saturn close; and to speculate on what we may yet find at galaxy’s edge. But in the process, we have lost the human element; not to mention the high hope of those quaint days when flight would create “one world.” Instead of one world, we have “star wars,” and a future in which dumb dented human toys will drift mindlessly about the cosmos long after our small planet’s dead.”
—Gore Vidal (b. 1925)
“They [parents] can help the children work out schedules for homework, play, and television that minimize the conflicts involved in what to do first. They can offer moral support and encouragement to persist, to try again, to struggle for understanding and mastery. And they can share a child’s pleasure in mastery and accomplishment. But they must not do the job for the children.”
—Dorothy H. Cohen (20th century)
“In full view of his television audience, he preached a new religion—or a new form of Christianity—based on faith in financial miracles and in a Heaven here on earth with a water slide and luxury hotels. It was a religion of celebrity and showmanship and fun, which made a mockery of all puritanical standards and all canons of good taste. Its standard was excess, and its doctrines were tolerance and freedom from accountability.”
—New Yorker (April 23, 1990)