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How About CBS TV Layoffs?
- Thread starter Madmansam
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Actually, Taryn left the station on her own in late Jan. 2008 to head "home" to New York state. No firing or layoff.
See here goodbye here:
http://cbs13.com/video/[email protected]
Ted
See here goodbye here:
http://cbs13.com/video/[email protected]
Ted
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jvparent
Guest
It's now reported that TWB is joining ABC's GOOD MORNING AMERICA from today as an entertainment reporter.
From the SF Chronicle - CBS 5 Layoffs
Several veteran TV news reporters, including Bay Area icons Bill Schechner and Manny Ramos, were laid off today at KPIX-TV in San Francisco in an apparent cost-cutting move.
The reporters, well known to Bay Area viewers for decades, were among 14 newsroom employees let go.
"When I walked in, they told me it was going to be a bad day in the newsroom," Ramos said. "Then they told me it was going to be a bad day for me, too."
Ramos, who has worked at the station since 1980 and has won three Emmy awards for his news coverage, said he was told by station executives that it was "purely a business decision."
Also laid off were Emmy-award-winning reporters Tony Russomanno and John Lobertini, along with several producers and editors.
Schechner, 66, who has been at the station off-and-on for 17 years and won two Emmys, said he was taken by surprise by the announcement.
"I'm not ready to stop," he said with a smile. "There are still stories I want to do and I'm sad I won't be able to do them for KPIX."
The four laid-off reporters have, among them, a total of 61 years of service at the station. Schechner has been on TV in the Bay Area since 1972.
KPIX communications director Akilah Monifa said the station had no comment on the layoffs except that they were not disciplinary. General manager Ron Longinotti declined to comment.
Ramos said he was trying to take the news philosophically, and that a glass of Scotch was helping him to do it.
"I've had a great time at channel 5," he said. "When I started in the business, people always told you that you'd be fired every couple of years. But I was still pretty surprised. I never expected it."
KPIX-TV, the CBS affiliate in the Bay Area, first went on the air in 1948 and is the oldest television station in Northern California.
Several veteran TV news reporters, including Bay Area icons Bill Schechner and Manny Ramos, were laid off today at KPIX-TV in San Francisco in an apparent cost-cutting move.
The reporters, well known to Bay Area viewers for decades, were among 14 newsroom employees let go.
"When I walked in, they told me it was going to be a bad day in the newsroom," Ramos said. "Then they told me it was going to be a bad day for me, too."
Ramos, who has worked at the station since 1980 and has won three Emmy awards for his news coverage, said he was told by station executives that it was "purely a business decision."
Also laid off were Emmy-award-winning reporters Tony Russomanno and John Lobertini, along with several producers and editors.
Schechner, 66, who has been at the station off-and-on for 17 years and won two Emmys, said he was taken by surprise by the announcement.
"I'm not ready to stop," he said with a smile. "There are still stories I want to do and I'm sad I won't be able to do them for KPIX."
The four laid-off reporters have, among them, a total of 61 years of service at the station. Schechner has been on TV in the Bay Area since 1972.
KPIX communications director Akilah Monifa said the station had no comment on the layoffs except that they were not disciplinary. General manager Ron Longinotti declined to comment.
Ramos said he was trying to take the news philosophically, and that a glass of Scotch was helping him to do it.
"I've had a great time at channel 5," he said. "When I started in the business, people always told you that you'd be fired every couple of years. But I was still pretty surprised. I never expected it."
KPIX-TV, the CBS affiliate in the Bay Area, first went on the air in 1948 and is the oldest television station in Northern California.
Newschannel4SF at least credit the source:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/03/31/BATIVTNB4.DTL&tsp=1
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/03/31/BATIVTNB4.DTL&tsp=1
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WordLife
Guest
Several encompasses the writers and producers that got it as well...Rogers won an award and anchors the Noon news. She'd have to retire in order to leave the station...
"Several laid off (fired)? I counted only 4 let go, Ramos, Schectner, Lobertini and Russomanno. That is not 'several'! Why did they stop there. Why didn't Barbara Rogers get the ax as well?"
Is this another of your April Fool's jokes, KIFR - like "Fresh 96-5?"
Several is defined as "More than a couple (which is 2), at least three, but small - not exceeding five"
So 4 would fit the definition of several. Don't know about Barbara Rogers, though...
Is this another of your April Fool's jokes, KIFR - like "Fresh 96-5?"
Several is defined as "More than a couple (which is 2), at least three, but small - not exceeding five"
So 4 would fit the definition of several. Don't know about Barbara Rogers, though...
CBS5 Blogger writes about layoffs from insider perspective--
Here's a link to CBS5.com blogger Brittney Gilbert's ongoing posts:
http://cbslocalblogs.prospero.com/n/blogs/blog.aspx?nav=main&webtag=kpix_eyeonblogs&entry=1055
It appears in an item about the layoffs on the front page of the SF Peninsula Press Club,
http://www.penpressclub.org/
which has a number of other stories worth reading... Many about the financial problems media outlets in the BA are contending with.
Such as: The Chron's circulation's dropped 28 percent in four years, the biggest percentage of any paper in the Top 20 newspaper list.
Here's a link to CBS5.com blogger Brittney Gilbert's ongoing posts:
http://cbslocalblogs.prospero.com/n/blogs/blog.aspx?nav=main&webtag=kpix_eyeonblogs&entry=1055
It appears in an item about the layoffs on the front page of the SF Peninsula Press Club,
http://www.penpressclub.org/
which has a number of other stories worth reading... Many about the financial problems media outlets in the BA are contending with.
Such as: The Chron's circulation's dropped 28 percent in four years, the biggest percentage of any paper in the Top 20 newspaper list.
W
WordLife
Guest
Add Rick Quan to the list...he was also given the pink slip earlier today...
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