Tag Archives: WLKY

Boel fired from WLKY, headed to rehab

After being charged with DUI for the second time in as many years, WLKY-TV news anchor John Boel has been fired from the station. According to a statement sent to colleagues, he plans to enter an addiction treatment center. Last Saturday, police in Bullitt County pulled Boel over for allegedly operating a motor vehicle while under the [...]

Boel, oh Boel!

For the second time in two years, WLKY-TV news anchor John Boel has been arrested for driving under the influence, this time in Bullitt County. The award-winning investigative reporter was pulled over Saturday night with a blood alcohol level of .207. Boel was charged with operating a motor vehicle while under the influence and possession [...]

Redding Resurrected!

Louisville’s phoenix of the Internet, Rick Redding, has got himself a new gig — writing for the Internet! No, seriously, WLKY has thrown some money together in an effort to resurrect the local media scribe, whose news-gathering LouisvilleMojo.com had its plug pulled in April of this year (a shame: it had some great writers). This [...]

WLKY Chopper Attacked By Nefarious Green Laser

Seriously: News chopper pilot Bill DeReamer was struck in the eye by one of those really cool high-intensity laser-things that you normally bring to music concerts or Shia LeBeouf movies. It is a serious offense, because DeReamer could have crashed into the swine-flu vaccine-getting crowd that he was covering, far below at Papa John’s Cardinal Stadium. So whoever did this is in [...]

Louisville #1 In Jergens Consumption

Ahh, November sweeps: That salacious, pre-Christmas season when major networks unleash their most sensational “news” stories to grab the attention of ‘Merica’s lowest common denominators so bigger advertising dividends will be paid. In the case of WLKY, we’ve got internet porn searches. Specifically, Louisville is the de facto capital of naughty internet searches, meaning that we spend [...]