Veteran anchors are losing their jobs at local stations, which don’t want to keep paying their big salaries while advertising revenues are plunging, the New York Times says. The downside: “Basically, you replace someone who knows City Hall with someone who can’t find it,” John Beard, who lost his job at KTTV last December after 26 years as a news anchor in Los Angeles, tells the paper.
—Jon Lafayette
Familiar Anchors Victims of Local Downturn
Dec 1, 2008 • Post A Comment
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