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valuable mostly at night and UK has only three night games scheduled.
Plus, even if UK is on WHAS, two of the three dates will have conflicts with Louisville, leaving UK with a single live broadcast on WHAS at night.
During the sometimes heated discussion, athletics director Cliff Hagan explained to the board that UK coaches Jerry Claiborne and Eddie Sutton expressed a preference for WHAS because WHAS could reach such a wide range of fans across the country.
Also, the coaches had concerns about their mid-week radio shows which stood a chance not to be carried on any 50,000-watt station if WHAS is not a part of the deal. WLW has agreed to only the live game broadcasts thus far.
As added leverage in the dealings with UK, officials at WHAS hinted that they might not be interested in the mid-week coaches' telephone shows which are very profitable to Claiborne, and Sutton.
Ed Henson, the owner and general manager of WAVG Radio in Louisville, was elated with the UK decision to include his station on the network.
The board, acting after various officials commended Henson and his station for promoting UK more than anyone else in memory last year, voted to instruct Kentucky Network (which owns the UK rights under a broadcasting agreement) to include WAVG in all broadcasts for the next three years.
Contacted earlier this week, WHAS general manager Bob Scherer told TCP that he was scheduled to meet later this week with John Casey of the Kentucky Network.
"John called me up last week and asked to meet with me and I told him my door is always open and I'll listen to anyone," said
the WHAS official.
Does that mean that WHAS is still interested in UK games?
"I just said I'm willing to listen," said Sherer, "we're not interested in a simulcast. We made a very lucrative offer to UK and they turned us down."
Scherer says it would be virtually impossible for his station to compete against WAVG Radio in selling advertising spots to clients in Louisville when he would not be able to provide all the games live in the Louisville market. People would not want only part of them when they could buy the entire package from another station, he reasoned.
Earlier, WHAS said its contract with Louisville contained a clause which would require UL of make every effort possible to avoid conflicts so there would be no delays.
But most experts feel the legal obligation there would be none on anyone's part. Apparently, WHAS also feels that way too.
One informed source in Louisville says WHAS had been hoping to sit down with officials of both schools to avoid such conflicts if WHAS was successful in getting both schools. That same official said such hopes were useless.
According to reports WHAS offered the Kentucky Network $200,000 per year for the exclusive rights in Louisville plus promotional time to UK which WHAS said amounted to some $1.8 million over a three year period. But WHAS said it was not interested in a shared situation.
Sherer told TCP that WHAS and its employees felt like they were done an injustice a year ago when a new contract was not awarded them. "We felt hurt, if you want to know the truth," said Scherer. And what would it take to get WHAS back
Applicatons are being accepted for the 1986 Wildcat Basketball Camp during June. There are three, one-week sessions planed  June 8-13; June 15-20; and June 22-27. The camp is open to anyone who has not completed the
in the UK picture?
Exclusive rights in Louisville, says Scherer.
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One has to wonder what has turned all the UK fans against WHAS in Louisville. That question was answered for some two hours on Van Vance's popular sports call-in show over WHAS the evening that UKAA voted to give WHAS the ultimatium.
After the UK action by the board of directors, phone callers of the blue variety dominated the show and pretty much presented the attitude, "okay WHAS, you got Louisville and you got Jock Sutherland, now enjoy it because you don't have UK to kick around any more."
It's quite evident Jock Sutherland, over the years, has gotten under more people's skin than just Joe B. Hall. Sutherland, who has become a thorn in UK's side for the past four or five years, is not unlike other celebrities who champion a cause or plays the devil's advocate. He is different in that he has one rare asset, a 50,000-watt, clear-channel radio station to beam his venom halfway around the nation.
Sutherland is very humorous and laid back. His comments have been enjoyed by a lot of people (most anti-Kentucky fans) but WHAS people even admit he's been on Joe Hall's case more than once. They insisted all along that it was a personal thing between HaTl and Jock.
Even some Kentucky fans could accept that, but when the snide remarks about Kentucky continued after Hall's departure, it became obvious that Sutherland's axe continued more blood than just Hall's.
If there could be a bottom line to the
12th grade in high school (ages 9-18).
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WHAS Radio controversy it could be that putting up with Jock is one thing and being No. 2 to Louisville is one thing, but putting up with both is too much for anyone to stomach, even the UKAA board of directors, which if you recall, made that historic decision to force Joe Hall to play the University of Louisville some three years ago.
What was that now famous line by Hall and Cliff Hagan? "We have something they want."
That line fits neatly with both issues, the non-rivalry which existed before 1983 and UK's No. 1 status on WHAS. Today. Louisville has both.
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With the sale of the Louisville Courier-Journal to the Gannett Corporation the Barry Bingham family now turns its attention to the sell of its radio and television stations, WHAS, Inc.
Insiders say that three of the top bidders could well be a group put together of employees by Bob Scherer, a large communications company owned by ex-cowboy Gene Autry and, heavens forbid, a group out of Lexington headed by Kentucky radio color analyst Ralph Hacker.
The group from Lexington also includes former Wildcat football star Phil Greer, Lexington businessman Robert Maxwell and two eastern Kentucky coal executives.
Industry observers believe the radio station will be sold for somewhere between $9 and $13.5 million. The radio and television stations are being sold separately. The Lexington group is interested only in the radio operation.