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LOUISVILLE MAGAZINE 2.15 89 houseofruth.net 502restaurantweek.com AS YOU CAN SEE BEHIND ME Continued from page 49 over the last several years, the audience for local broadcast news inched up in 2013. Te team deliberates about potential stories at the morning meeting: What does it mean if MSD workers go on strike? Dejuan Hammond's third murder trial begins in 38 minutes. "We always get a lot of hits when we do stories on it," Keeney mutters, lips stifening. She's calculating: What's newsworthy? What's tease-able? Someone suggests a cold-weather story: "No space-heater fres yet, but it is cold…." Keeney replies, "If we're strug- gling to fnd a cold-weather angle, I think weather can handle it." At 9:30, she meets with the early-morning crew to rehash the day's show. Most mornings, she wakes at 5 a.m. to watch. Tey discuss upcoming shows: "On Friday, we have Bobcat Goldthwait (a comedian) and a woman who makes a 'Bacon Copia.'" (It's a woven basket of bacon stufed with meat.) While WDRB employees consider them- selves serious broadcast journalists, apparently that label clocks in at 9 a.m. WDRB in the Morning is a news program at its core, but it markets the zany. At one point last year, WDRB ran a promo with its morning news team dancing, throwing confetti at one another, playing air guitar, wearing giant sunglasses, lots of hip- shaking, a conga line. One of the most popular videos on WDRB's website early in November sweeps was morning feature reporter Keith Kaiser dressed as a clown, scaring the crap out of people as they walked into work. Meetings adjourned, Keeney reflls her mug with hot water and walks back to her ofce, a corner nook with large windows holding four glistening regional Emmy Awards on the sill. (I knew there were more awards in here.) Keeney spends much of her day with administrative stuf — vacation requests, email. She opens one from the sales department. Tey want the news side to cover an advertiser giving away a car to needy families. "It sounds like a great story, but you nev- er know what's going to happen," she says, typing a response. "We'd love to cover it; hopefully we'll make it." Keeney, a New Jersey native, started her career at WDRB in the '90s, left for a bit, only to return in 2001 to produce WDRB's 4 p.m. show, then known as Fox News@4. When she watches news, she can't help but talk to the TV — "Cue" to a reporter who's standing in silence. Or: "Her hands are in the shot" upon seeing a mysterious third set of hands when only two anchors should be in frame. Keeney's non-stop, multitasking's dream child because she craves the juggle. "I wouldn't have it any other way," she says. In meetings, her phone dings every few minutes with texts from staf as well as news alerts from competing sta- tions. It's 11:30. She walks out to the newsroom to meet with 6 p.m. reporters and catches a glimpse of Corsey in the middle of a live shot for the midday show. He's standing in a truck, holding