According to WVTM in Alabama, Paula "Dean" was "Fried" for making racial slurs.
This happens almost at the exact same time that Paula Deen was Fired for making racial slurs.
I think if I had a choice I would rather be fired than fried.
Something happened at Gray Television and now President and Chief Operating Officer Bob Prather out the door.
Prather, which he and partner J. Mack Robinson took over in 1994 and built into a major group through a series of acquisitions.In a terse announcement, the publicly traded company said that Prather has resigned from "all positions" and that that CEO Hilton Howell will assume the title of president. Howell is Robinson's son-in-law.
Said Howell in a statement: "I want to thank Bob Prather for his service to the company. As we continue to move ahead, I am looking forward to continuing to work closely with our corporate leadership team, as well as all the other members of Gray's outstanding operational leadership team at our television stations.
"This is an exciting and dynamic time in the television broadcasting industry, and after our record year in 2012 we continue to be on track for a very solid year in 2013."
H/T TVNewsCheck
WTAE has been slowly phasing out longtime anchor Sally Wiggin and now they have taken another step in that process.
Wiggin, once the main anchor at the station was busted down to the Noon show and now she's being taken off the anchor desk altogether.
The station announced that she will leave the anchor desk for a new assignment as host of a one-hour ongoing series of news specials called "WTAE Chronicle."
Wiggin did her best to spin the news that she will no longer being on the air each day. "Stations have to think of the future and they want me to be a part of that and that's validating," said Wiggin, 60. "When you get to this age, you want to be challenged because it's good for your brain. This will challenge me in a way reading a TelePrompTer was not."
The station says that Wiggin will continue contributing to WTAE newscasts, though not on a daily basis.
I think we can all agree, It sucks getting old.
Yesterday, WLS announced that they were pulling the plug on their 11AM newscast.
Today, they bounced one of the Anchor's of that same newscast.
WLS has parted ways news anchor and "Healthbeat" reporter Sylvia Perez after 24 years with the station.
Officially, her contract, which expires in September, is not being renewed. Her last time on the air was yesterday, June 20th.
It is the general policy of WLS-TV to not comment on personnel matters, so there is no official comment from the station regarding the exit of Sylvia Perez. However, inside sources confirm that she is no longer on the air for ABC 7.
Morning news anchor Judy Hsu filled the 11:00am newscast co-anchor vacancy today, with no mention of the missing Perez.
H/T Chicago Land Radio and Media
Belo, announced Wednesday that Robert Decherd will retire as its chairman, president and CEO on Sept. 11 and be succeeded by Jim Moroney, the Dallas Morning News’ longtime publisher and CEO.
Just because Decherd is retiring, don't expect to become a Wal-Mart Greeter or have to shop of the dollar menu at McDonald's.
He will be paid $300,000 a year in 2014, 2015 and 2016 to serve as vice chairman of A.H. Belo’s board of directors, the company disclosed.
Although Decherd will stop being CEO in September, he’ll still get his full $600,000 annual salary for 2013 and will be eligible for a full year’s bonus. Decherd earned $1.9 million in 2012.
That's not all he gets, see what else after the jump.
Read MoreAmanda Davis signed off from WAGA in Atlanta with these words "So it's with a heavy heart that I announce now that I am officially retiring from Fox 5 as I look ahead to a new chapter in my life."
Well, it looks like that new chapter in her life includes a lawsuit.
The formerFox 5 anchor was sued this week in Fulton County Superior Court by the driver she hit in a wrong-way accident last November.
Davis at the time was arrested on charges of DUI, failure to maintain lane and reckless driving.
David Jarman, in the lawsuit, is requesting payment for past medical expenses of $76,109 plus future related medical expenses. He wants monies related to lost wages and mental and physical pain and suffering as well as punitive damages.
More after the jump.
Read MoreWPLG in Miami font showed that the Miami Heat lost game 7 of the NBA Finals. Last we looked the Heat won game 7 and have gone back to back.
Celebrity chef and Author Paula Deen has been making headlines for admitting in deposition in a lawsuit that she used the "N word."
Her company has been in full damage control mode since the news came out. Deen's company says that she used the epithet, but in a "quite different time" in American history.
She blames her use of the word on being "from the south."
"Contrary to media reports, Ms. Deen does not condone or find the use of racial epithets acceptable," her lawyer, Bill Franklin said. "She is looking forward to her day in court."
She maybe looking forward to her day in court, but not on the Today Show. Deen was scheduled to appear on Today, but didn't show up.
We're guessing that the news in Spokane might be a bit slow lately.
KHQ sent Reporter Katie Steiner out to show that when it rains, the streets have water in them. We know..... it's the hard investigative reporting you want.
Steiner was also able to show that if you stand next to water in the road and a car drives through the water, you get wet.
If Steiner doesn't win and Emmy for this reporting, we're crying foul.
WESH (Orlando) Anchor Martha Sugalski is laying in a hospital waiting on the birth of her triplets.
The anchor who has been tweeting often about her pregnancy affectionally refers to her unborn babies as "The Bumps."
Now the Bumps have their own Twitter account.
Someone set up a parody account and is tweeting as the babies inside Sugalski.
Here's some of what they have sent out:
While the Today Show continues to overhaul their product to try and get past Good Morning America....The CBS Morning Show is creeping up closer behind them.
CBS This Morning posted double-digit year-to-year percentage gains among viewers (+22%), households (+18%) and women 25-54 (+13%) and added +487,000 viewers compared to the same week last year, according to Nielsen live plus same day ratings for the week ending June 14, 2013.
CBS This Morning also improved its competitive position with NBC, closing the gap by over 700,000 viewers.
Elliott Wiser, who created the local cable newschannel in Tampa Bay News 9 and Central Florida News 13 in Orlando is leaving to become the general manager of St. Petersburg CBS affiliate WTSP.
Wiser will take over for the retiring general manager Ken Tonning.
“I started in broadcast TV; my plan was always to return to my roots,” said Wiser, 57, who noted that WTSP owner Gannett Broadcasting could offer more opportunities if things go well locally. “I always said I would move for the right job. And this is the right job.”
He starts the job July 8.
Have you always wanted to live in Mexico but were afraid of the drug cartels?
How about going trying out New Mexico.
KOB in Albuquerque has posted a job for a News Director.
Here's the job posting:
QUALIFICATIONS:
Damn! We got taken by a fake Twitter account and a fake email.
Although we still think Elisabeth Hasselbeck is leaving 'The Vew'. Stay tuned....
You always hate when a news powerhouse pulls the plug on a newscast, but that is exactly what is happening in Chicago.
Our man Robert Feder writes that WLS, Chicago's top-rated television station is dropping its 11 a.m. Monday-through-Friday newscast after more than 20 years this fall to make room on its daytime schedule for the syndicated "Live with Kelly and Michael" and retain the locally produced "Windy City Live."
Linda Yu and Sylvia Perez have been anchoring ABC 7's late-morning newscast since it debuted in September 1992. At the time, they were the first two women to anchor a newscast together in Chicago. Initially a half-hour newscast at 11:30 a.m., it later expanded to a full hour.
The cancellation was prompted by ABC 7's acquisition of "Live with Kelly and Michael," which has been airing at 9 a.m. weekdays on Tribune Broadcasting WGN-Channel 9.
More after the jump.
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A 6 person jury has been seated in the George Zimmerman case and all 6 are women.
Zimmerman is on trial for second-degree murder trial of Trayvon Martin in the shooting death of 17-year-old.
The Alternates are still being chosen, but the main jury right now is all ladies.
Somewhere Nancy Grace is getting really excited.
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