Terry Meiners

Quick Facts

Full Name	Terry Meiners
Occupation	Radio Personality
Date Of Birth	Jan 22, 1957(1957-01-22)
Age	67
Country	United States
Horoscope	Capricorn

Terry Meiners Biography

Terry Meiners is one of the most popular and richest Radio Personality who was born on January 22, 1957 in United States. Terry Allen Meiners, born on the 22nd of January 1957 was a TV and radio personality in the stations of WHAS (AM) as well as WHAS-TV located in Louisville, Kentucky. On radio, the Terry Meiners Show has aired every weekday afternoon since 1985 The show aired from 3-7 pm starting in 1985 until May 15th, 2015 and it is currently on from 3-6 after 6 pm. Meiners is famous for his impersonations of famous local residents and his satirical interview of a variety of news personalities comedians as well as television and film celebrities and politicians. In an area that is thriving on colleges, Meiners lampoons the flightiness of University of Louisville (U of L) Cardinals fans and the fanaticism that is typical of University of Kentucky (UK) Wildcats fans. The majority of Meiners fake callers are smug sports fans making a rant on the air. They end with “I’ll hang up and listen to your answer.”

in 2001 Meiners released an Internet-connected parody piece that projected acerbic and scathing behaviour from Kentucky Wildcats fans toward now-hated Rick Pitino’s return to his home state as coach of archrival Louisville. Meiners wrote snarky statements and assigned hillbilly-inspired nicknames to each of the fictional UK fans featured in the fake story. The next day The Lexington Herald Leader newspaper ran an article on the front page headlined, “Web site parody sparks outrage in Eastern Kentucky.” The following day The Louisville Courier-Journal published a news article about the Meiners parody. It was followed by an Courier-Journal Sunday editorial that criticized Meiners for imposing stereotypes of the hillbilly on eastern Kentuckians.

In both 2010 and 2011, LEO Weekly published its Readers’ Poll which listed Meiners as both the “Best Radio Personality” and “Best Local Media Celebrity You Love to Hate.” In the 2010 poll, the second most-hated media celebrity was Karen Sypher, the convicted extortionist of former Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino, a friend of Meiners.

On November 14, 2011, Meiners was found not guilty by a Jefferson District Court jury in a speeding case where a police officer threatened a defamation lawsuit. Meiners and a second driver were simultaneously cited for “running 75 in a 55” mph speed zone. The police officer was talking to his girlfriend via cell phone while weaving through traffic to detain both alleged speeders. On WHAS (AM) Radio, Meiners called the officer a liar fifteen times, and gave him the cartoonish names “Black Barney” and “Black Car Barney,” a combination of the black police car, Barney Fife, and notorious stagecoach robber Black Bart. The African American officer claimed he was offended by the radio comments, and authorized an attorney to ask Meiners for a $30,000 advance settlement to resolve all claims, avoiding a defamation lawsuit. Meiners refused and challenged the officer’s citation in a trial by jury. The second car’s driver also testified that he thought the officer’s claim of 75 mph was incorrect. A crash reconstruction expert testified that the police video showed the second driver’s car was traveling between 63 and 65 mph. The Meiners vehicle was behind the police car and never within its camera range. Meiners’ attorney Steve Pence told the jury the threat of a defamation lawsuit was a shakedown, adding, “I called (the officer) a liar; he can sue me if he wants.” The jury deliberated only three minutes to find Meiners not guilty. In 2012, the officer filed a defamation lawsuit against Meiners in Jefferson, Kentucky Circuit Court. The lawsuit was later dismissed.

Over the past twenty years Meiners performed at various places each Friday morning during Good Morning Kentuckiana, the early morning news show that precedes ABC’s Good Morning America. He now co-hosts Great Day Live! every weekday at 10am on the channel WHAS-TV. Meiners was host of his show, the Rick Pitino coach’s show from 2001 until 2004 on WDRB-TV before switching to the contract with the university to WHAS-11 between 2005 and the year 2010. Meiners resumed hosting in 2012.

Terry Meiners Net Worth

Terry Meiners is one of the richest Radio Personality from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Terry Meiners 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

A student at the nearby St. Xavier High School that was a part of UK, Meiners was a veteran of Louisville radio prior to his switch to WHAS in 1985. His last job prior to WHAS was co-hosting “The Show With No Name” alongside Ron Clay. This was a morning drive-time radio show at Louisville radio station WQMF. They brought their edgy humor to Louisville’s radio stations, causing the Courier-Journal to proclaim the show as “they’re raucous and rowdy, outrageous and bawdy, occasionally offensive and faintly foul-mouthed.” WQMF has hired Clay and Meiners away from the rival station WLRS-FM. The pair hosted the raunchy “Morning Sickness” show from 1981 to 1983.

With the music “Dueling Banjos”, Meiners frequently cartoonized Wallace G. Wilkinson, Kentucky’s governor between 1987 and 1992 as a clever Huckster with a wailing Hick accent. In 1989, at an NCAA basketball match held in Minneapolis, Louisville Mayor Jerry Abramson introduced Wilkinson and Meiners as governors, and the governor yelling, “What did I do to piss you off?” When Wilkinson passed away in 2002, his estate was entangled in bankruptcy proceedings, which revealed his masterminding of a $400 million Ponzi scam that wiped out the assets of numerous famous Kentuckians and forced the change of the auditing guidelines.

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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Facts & Trivia

Terry Ranked on the list of most popular Radio Personality. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Terry Meiners celebrates birthday on January 22 of every year.