Hayley Minogue Biography | Hayley Minogue
Hayley Minogue is an Anchor/Reporter at WHAS11 in Louisville, KY, specializing in general assignment reporting. Hayley was born and raised in Louisville. She attended Sacred Heart Academy before heading to the University of Kentucky to pursue a degree in journalism.
She wrote about college basketball (Lady Hoops Let’s Go!) for Kentucky Sports Radio, which landed her an internship at ESPN. Hayley started her career in Hazard at WYMT and then went to the Gulf Coast to work in the Mobile, AL, and Pensacola, FL, area for the CBS affiliate.
Some of her most memorable stories include flying with the Blue Angels in Pensacola, covering Hurricane Irma in Jacksonville, FL. for dozens of stations across the country, and traveling throughout the Panhandle as police searched for a serial killer on the run.
While those are her most memorable, her favorite stories are the ones where she was able to expose local daycares for state infractions, tell the story of a boy who was recovering from a rare disease that made 100 percent of his skin burn, and that one time she got stuck on a boat with five strangers from 6 p.m. through 6 a.m. during opening night of gator hunting season. Plus, all those “Florida Man” stories.
Hayley loves the rush of a breaking news story but also knows the importance of a good news story showcasing her hometown’s best community members.
Being a native to Louisville, Hayley says she feels an added pressure to tell good, fair stories. “If I don’t do my best, it’s not just on me. This is my parents home. All of my family lives here. I have to make them proud,” she says.
When Hayley is not at work, she’s more than likely hiking at the Red River Gorge, enjoying Louisville’s unique food and drink scene, binge-watching Netflix shows, and enjoying time with her son, JW.
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Born and raised in Louisville, Hayley Minogue is returning to her hometown to anchor weekend mornings on WHAS11. Her pieces of information about birthdate, Age, the month of birth are not yet revealed yet but stay ready for the update soon
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I couldn’t wait to get out of Alabama.By Hayley Minogue
It was back in Spring of 2018. I was 26 at the time, pregnant, and I had a boyfriend I adored. I was living a good life in Mobile. It was a happy time. But very quickly things started to go wrong.
My job had become difficult. My contract was terminated, and I didn’t know I was pregnant at the time. After that, I got a phone call from a former co-worker who had been at the job for a very long time. My co-worker said, “Well, your career may be over, but you will find fulfillment as a mother.”
I took a job in retail. It’s all I could do. Things were spiraling out of control, and I felt like I didn’t have anyone or anything that could help. I had to call my parents and say “I gotta get out of here. I have nothing here. I hate it here, and need to leave.” And every day I thank God I was able to make that call.
But the judgment never really stopped, regardless of what job I was in. Multiple customers at my retail job would tell me that it was wrong to be pregnant and not married.
I was told constantly that they knew I would quit and stay home with the baby once he came.
It wasn’t long before I could not wait to get out of Alabama. Even days when people didn’t say anything, I could feel a constant sense of judgment and condescending behavior because I wasn’t married. Read also about Keivan Zokaei
And because I had only been in that job five months when I gave birth, I wasn’t entitled to any type of paid leave. In just a short few months, I had lost my job, lost my sense of self, and lost most of my family away from home in my co-workers.
But it wasn’t all bad. The people who helped me get Medicaid and get on to the SNAP program for Women, Infants, and Children were wonderful. And the doctor who sees Medicaid women at Providence hospital was amazing. Read also about Lisa Hutson
Now, I’m happy. I’m working on my career field, despite what I was told, off of government assistance, and I’m saving to buy a home. I know I’m extremely privileged. And I think constantly about those who are not.
Hayley Minogue WHAS-TV
WHAS-TV, virtual and VHF digital channel 11, is an ABC-affiliated television station licensed to Louisville, Kentucky, United States.
The station is owned by Tegna Inc. WHAS-TV’s studios are located on West Chestnut Street in Downtown Louisville, and its transmitter is located in rural northeastern Floyd County, Indiana (northeast of Floyds Knobs). On cable, WHAS-TV is available on Spectrum channel 4 and in high definition on digital channel 908.
The station first signed on the air on March 27, 1950. Originally broadcasting on VHF channel 9; it was the second television station to sign on in the Louisville market and the state of Kentucky (after NBC affiliate WAVE-TV, which signed on in November 1948).
WHAS-TV was founded by the Bingham family, publishers of morning newspaper The Courier-Journal, afternoon newspaper The Louisville Times and operator of WHAS (840 AM), Louisville’s oldest radio station.
It operated from brand-new studios in the Courier-Journal/Times Building at 6th & Broadway, in downtown Louisville—even though WHAS-TV’s construction permit (1946) was issued before WAVE-TV’s (1947), the Bingham family waited until the new TV facility was finished to begin telecasting, 16 months after WAVE, who adapted an existing building at Preston and Broadway.
The station originally operated as a primary CBS affiliate, owing to its sister radio station’s longtime affiliation with the CBS Radio Network, with a secondary affiliation with ABC.
It moved to VHF channel 11 on February 7, 1953, one of several channel shifts resulting from the Federal Communications Commission’s 1952 Sixth Report and Order. Under the same decree, WAVE-TV relocated from channel 5 to channel 3.
Following the move to channel 11, the station became to first to increase its effective radiated power to 316,000 watts, the maximum allowed for a high-band VHF station, resulting in a greatly increased signal coverage area.
When the FCC gradually enforced print-broadcast cross-ownership restrictions in the early 1970s, the Commission granted the Binghams a grandfathered cross-ownership waiver to retain their Louisville holdings.
Barry Bingham, Sr., patriarch of the family media empire, handed over control to his son Barry, Jr. upon his retirement from active involvement in 1971.
But following nearly fifteen years of family infighting, the senior Bingham decided to break up the family’s media holdings in early 1986.
The decision resulted in the sales of WHAS radio (and its sister FM station, WAMZ) to Clear Channel Communications; the Courier-Journal and the Times to the Gannett Company; and WHAS-TV to the Providence Journal Company. The Journal Company merged with the Belo Corporation in 1997.
WHAS-TV lost ABC programming when WLKY (channel 32) signed on September 16, 1961, with channel 11 becoming an exclusive CBS affiliate. Nearly three decades later on September 8, 1990, channel 11 ended its long relationship with CBS and rejoined ABC, this time as an exclusive affiliate of the network.
At the time of the switch, ABC was the second-most-watched network in the country (after NBC), and the network was concerned with WLKY’s ratings; CBS was at a distant third during the midway-point of president Laurence Tisch’s helming of the network.
WLKY, which became the market’s CBS affiliate, has since made strong strides in the market as cable penetration allowed WLKY’s traditional disadvantage of being on the UHF band to fade, and other factors allowed the station to strengthen its news operation and adequately compete with WHAS-TV’s newscasts.
In addition, WLKY became the local home for the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament, and owing to the region’s status as a college basketball hotbed with local teams such as Kentucky, Louisville, and Indiana being longtime fixtures in the tournament, NCAA tournament games on WLKY are consistently among the highest-rated programs in the market during the tournament’s run.
Channel 11 has seen some struggles over the years during television seasons when ABC suffers from a weaker-rated schedule, while WLKY’s ties to CBS have boosted that station through most of the 2000s. With ABC’s current schedule, both stations usually exchange the top rankings in the Louisville market’s news ratings.
On June 13, 2013, Belo announced that it would be acquired by the Gannett Company. Due to Gannett’s ownership of The Courier-Journal, the company chose to spin off WHAS-TV to Sander Media, LLC (a media company operated by former Belo executive Jack Sander), with Gannett operating the station through a shared services agreement.
The sale was completed on December 23. The SSA marked a re-entry into Louisville television for Gannett, which owned WLKY from 1979 (after Combined Communications merged with Gannett) until it sold the station to Pulitzer, Inc. in 1983.
On June 29, 2015, Gannett split into two publicly traded companies. The print interests retained the Gannett name, while the broadcasting and digital media interests became Tegna.
Shortly afterward, Sander Media filed with the FCC to transfer WHAS-TV’s license to Tegna’s Belo Kentucky, Inc.; the acquisition was completed on December 3, 2015.
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