After 8 years Travis Mayfield is leaving Fox 13 after management wanted to reassign him to field reporting in addition to anchor the 4:30 half hour of Fox 13 morning news. He says he has no job lined up and would like to remain in Seattle.
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Travis Mayfield leaving Fox 13
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After 8 years Travis Mayfield is leaving Fox 13 after management wanted to reassign him to field reporting in addition to anchor the 4:30 half hour of Fox 13 morning news. He says he has no job lined up and would like to remain in Seattle.
That’s too bad. Travis has always been one of the best personalities on Fox. To be fair, I probably wouldn’t want to anchor the 4:30 news and be stuck with fieldwork either. It sounds like kind of a bad deal.
That’s what he does now anchors the 4:30 half hour then does stories from I guess their live desk from 5-10am. In the new arrangement it would have him still anchoring the 4:30 half hour but have him out in the field from 5-10am.
Fox Seattle is going through major changes as it becomes O&O by Fox. I would expect even more changes ahead. This is the biggest change in the Seattle market in years.
It's one thing to have a studio-based job (as he had) and have to go out in the field reporting (which is what they proposed). He probably feels the split anchoring/reporting thing is better left to younger, up and coming person.
I think that is spot on.
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