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7 unusual facts about Barry Bingham


Barry Bingham

Barry Bingham, Jr. (1933–2006), American media executive, son of the above

Barry Bingham, Jr.

He also was an active supporter of and fund-raiser for Actors Theatre of Louisville and Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest.

This ongoing struggle, particularly with sister Sallie Bingham, eventually led Bingham Sr. to break up the company in 1986 and sell off the parts, with the newspapers being sold to Gannett Corporation and the radio stations sold to a predecessor of Clear Channel Communications.

The original plan by Bingham Sr. was for Barry Jr. to control the family's broadcast properties, WHAS (AM), WHAS-FM and WHAS-TV, as well as the Standard Gravure rotogravure print plant.

Barry Bingham, Sr.

He also founded WHAS-TV, the city's second television station, and founded the WHAS Crusade for Children, a telethon broadcast on both the radio and television stations that today collects more than USD 6,000,000 each year for local children's charities.

Throughout Bingham's tenure, the editorial voices of the C-J & Times was forthrightly liberal, especially for a fairly conservative (though predominantly Democratic at the time) state like Kentucky.

Bingham's family owned a cluster of influential media properties — The Courier-Journal and The Louisville Times newspapers, plus WHAS Radio and WHAS Television.



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