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KTLA Layoffs

michael hagerty

michael hagerty

"The cuts included longtime weekday morning weather anchor Mark Kriski, and veteran midday anchors Glen Walker and Lu Parker, along with meteorologist Kacey Montoya and reporter Ellina Abovian, according to NewscastStudio."

nypost.com

Beloved LA TV anchors axed as mass layoffs hit broadcaster

The layoffs are part of a broader restructuring at Nexstar Media Group stations in Los Angeles and New York.
nypost.com nypost.com

The original story, from NewscastStudio, also says cuts are happening at WPIX, New York in addition to the ones already reported at WGN, Chicago:

www.newscaststudio.com

Nexstar cuts jobs at New York, Los Angeles stations

Nexstar Media Group instituted a series of layoffs at its stations in New York and ... Read More
www.newscaststudio.com www.newscaststudio.com
 
If Kriski and Montoya need some freelance work while they look for their next gig, the company that provides the weather forecasts for KRKE and several dozen more stations nationwide is looking for meterologists:

 
For some reason, the link I posted isn't unfurling. Maybe the board software thinks I used inappropriate language in the URL. :rolleyes:

A search on "Nowcast weather" will turn them up.
 
The Los Angeles Times also has an article:

www.latimes.com

Nexstar lays off local TV journalists including KTLA's Glen Walker and Lu Parker

Meteorologist Mark Kriski is also out as part of company-wide cost reductions at Nexstar.
www.latimes.com www.latimes.com

Not to diminish the others in any way, but their booting of Kriski is infuriating given his tenure and the depth of his contributions to KTLA.

Who in the Los Angeles market, at any station, has been on the air longer than he has, anyway?
 
yeoldeschool said:
Who in the Los Angeles market, at any station, has been on the air longer than he has, anyway?
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Right off the top of my head? Pat Harvey at KCBS/KCAL. Started there somewhere around 1989, IIRC.
 
yeoldeschool said:
Not to diminish the others in any way, but their booting of Kriski is infuriating given his tenure and the depth of his contributions to KTLA.

Who in the Los Angeles market, at any station, has been on the air longer than he has, anyway?
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Is Eric Spillman still there? He's been there as long, or nearly as long as Mark Kriski. Also, a couple of articles I read said that Kriski had been with KTLA for 30 years. I think he was there at the launch of the KTLA Morning News in 1991, which would make it 35 years at least.
 
I’m not trying to be ageist, but with all the layoffs going on in the TV business, perhaps it’s time for anyone who is past typical retirement age to get out of the way. The idea of a “job for life” is rather silly given today’s economic realities. Make some space for younger generations.

I spent my career in the TV industry, and am so glad I’m retired now and don’t have to deal with all the current upheaval.
 
powers said:
Is Eric Spillman still there? He's been there as long, or nearly as long as Mark Kriski. Also, a couple of articles I read said that Kriski had been with KTLA for 30 years. I think he was there at the launch of the KTLA Morning News in 1991, which would make it 35 years at least.
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Yes, Eric and Kriski were both hired on at the very beginning.

Just checked, and it appears Eric posted a clip of one of the anchors remarking on-air about the situation:

https://twitter.com/x/status/2027055388160561263

Mediafrog+ said:
I’m not trying to be ageist, but with all the layoffs going on in the TV business, perhaps it’s time for anyone who is past typical retirement age to get out of the way.
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Rubbish. Kriski was already close to retirement. Throwing tenured people out just before reaching their careers' finish lines is classic corporate psychopathy. And as if they couldn't have timed things more poorly, one of the other fired reporters was celebrating her 40th birthday that day.
 
yeoldeschool said:
Kriski was already close to retirement. Throwing tenured people out just before reaching their careers' finish lines is classic corporate psychopathy.
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I don't disagree, but...

L.A. anchor people tend to stay in the saddle longer than most. Chuck Henry stayed on the anchor desk at KNBC until he was 76. Hal Fishman at KTLA and Jerry Dunphy at KCAL both died---Hal at 75 and Jerry at 80.

In New York, Chuck Scarborough held on until age 81 at WNBC.

Even Paul Moyer has admitted, years after the fact, that KNBC pushed him out (with a lowball contract offer) before he was ready to go and he was a couple months shy of 68.
 
deadline.com

KTLA Reporter Reacts To Being Laid Off On Her Birthday: “I Was Blindsided”

Ellina Abovian was one of five KTLA personalities laid off by parent company, Nexstar, as it seeks to cut costs before a multi-billion dollar merger with Tegna.
deadline.com deadline.com

Oof here is another former KTLA staff member coming forward over the layoffs.

The other shoe has to drop at some point such as in TV markets like Sacramento, San Diego, Buffalo, Indianapolis, Saint Louis, Portland, Hartford/New Haven would have to deal with similar layoffs. This is because Tegna and Nexstar currently have separate offices in those cities.
 
powers said:
I was able to see it - there was a hyperlink at the bottom of your post that says "Home" which takes you to the right place.
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Thanks. I didn't notice that, as I had expected the URL to unfurl. Apparently if it doesn't (for whatever reason ... I have no idea what XenForo uses as "rules" for that) it then defaults to whatever the site put in the <TITLE> tag on the page header.
 


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