Radio journalists

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Recounts memories of working at WHAS-Radio in Louisville, KY from 1983-2001. Graduated from Western Ky University with a degree in Journalism. Talks about getting first job in radio and how she came to WHAS. Her experiences as a news person at the station covering events such as tornados, the Carrolton bus crash, the Lindsay Scott trial, being on the campaign bus during the first Clinton/Gore presidential election. How her documentaries on Schizophrenia and women with HIV developed into Peabody Award winners. The philosophy of the newsroom under News Director Brian Rublein and Barry Bingham, Jr. People with whom she worked…Dan Burgess, Bob Lauder, Mike Edgerly, Ralph Dix, Fred Wiche, Bill Cody, Terry Meiners and others.
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Recounts memories of working at WHAS-Radio in Louisville, KY from 1983-2001. Graduated from Western Kentucky University with a degree in journalism. Talks about getting first job in radio and how she came to WHAS. Her experiences as a news person at the station covering events such as tornados, the Carrolton bus crash, the Lindsay Scott trial, being on the campaign bus during the first Clinton/Gore presidential election. How her documentaries on schizophrenia and women with HIV developed into Peabody Award winners. The philosophy of the newsroom under News Director Brian Rublein and Barry Bingham, Jr. People with whom she worked…Dan Burgess, Bob Lauder, Mike Edgerly, Ralph Dix, Fred Wiche, Bill Cody, Terry Meiners and others.
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Brian Rublein talks about his stints in WHAS, from 1970-1974, and from 1980-2001. He talks about how he got his job at the WHAS in night time news, when he was hired by Bob Morse. Rublein talks about his time spent as news director, when the radio departments at WHAS were split from the T.V. departments. Rublein also speaks a little about his time spent in WAVE. Finally, Rublein talks about his relationship with the Bingham family as he reinvented the way that commercial radio did stories.
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Ray Shelton starts the interview explaining how he got interested in radio, and how he had originally become a lawyer, before transitioning to HAS television broadcasting in 1950. Shelton goes into detail about the hiring process for the WHAS television, and why Paul Clark picked him to be the first announcer for the WHAS. Shelton goes into detail about what it took to pioneer television broadcasting, explaining how one of his shows, According to the Law, went on to win a silver gavel in New York.