Programming
WHAS modernized in the early 1970s from an old-line MOR music outlet into an early form of Hot Adult Contemporary music format, featuring adult-appeal Top 40 hits and rock oldies; one longtime slogan was "Good and Gold" (as in "good music", or adult contemporary, and "golden" oldies). For a time in the 1980s, it was also the Louisville affiliate for Casey Kasem's American Top 40. The station continued to feature a full-service Hot AC format through the 1980s (and was the last 50 kW AM station with a full-time AC format), and by 1995, most of the remaining music programming was oldies-based; this made WHAS one of the last 50,000-watt clear-channel radio stations to feature music programming on a regular basis.
Today the station features The Rush Limbaugh Show (live), The Mark Levin Show (delayed by 3 hours), the last hour of the national broadcast of Ground Zero, and Coast to Coast AM (live) on its daily lineup. Some other personalities on the weekday lineup include Terry Meiners on "Terry Meiners and Company" and Lachlan McLean on "Sports Talk 84". Francene Cucinello hosted "The Francene Show" until her death on January 15, 2010; she was replaced that summer by Mandy Connell.
Weekend programming includes The Dave Ramsey Show, The Ric Edelman Show, The Larry Kudlow Show, The Mutual Fund Show with Adam Bold, Handel on the Law, and Live on Sunday Night, it's Bill Cunningham.
WHAS is Louisville's home for University of Kentucky athletic broadcasts, carrying Wildcats football and men's basketball games. Previously, it had been the flagship for Louisville Cardinals football and basketball.
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