Milwaukee Station Kicks Off the Book by Firing the Anchor
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WTMJ in Milwaukee got the Feb book off to an interesting start by firing their Anchor.
George Mallet, who rejoined WTMJ in 2016 as the co-anchor of the NBC affiliate's flagship newscast six years after leaving the station, is out again.
"I honestly thought things had been going pretty well," Mallet said. "We had a couple of bad ratings books, but when I first got here we had some successive ratings victories."
Here's the internal memo sent out by WTMJ GM Joe Poss and obtained by FTVLive:
Two years ago, Mallet returned to WTMJ to co-anchor the station's 5 and 10 p.m. newscasts with Carole Meekins. He had left the station in 2010 to become the main anchor at WPTZ-TV, in the Plattsburgh, N.Y., and Burlington, Vt., market.
What his next career step will be is less certain.
"I don't know. I really don't," Mallet said. "I've got to look at my contract to see what my options are. … We'll see where it goes."
