CBS-owned TV stations make cuts in Chicago, LA & San Fran SeattlePI.com
April 1, 2008
WBBM-TV, a
CBS-owned station in Chicago, released what was believed to be the region's highest-paid news anchor and a number of other well-known faces in a cost-cutting move Monday.
Diann Burns, who is paid $2 million per year, was among those purged. In addition WBBM cast off its lead sportscaster,
Mark Malone, and longtime anchor-turned-health correspondent
Mary Ann Childers.
In San Francisco,
KPIX-TV, also -owned, let go several veteran reporters, including Bay Area icons
Bill Schechner and
Manny RamosThe reporters, well known to Bay Area viewers for decades, were among 14 newsroom employees let go.
The San Francisco/Oakland/San Jose area is the nation's sixth-largest media market. The Chicago area is third-largest.
KIRO/7, Seattle's CBS affiliate, is not owned by
CBS Corp. It is owned by Atlanta-based
Cox Enterprises.
The Seattle/Tacoma area is the nation's 14th-largest TV market.
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***MORE DETAILS OF CBS CUTS IN LOS ANGELES & SAN FRANCISCO***About a dozen news staffers will depart KCBS-TV and KCAL-TV in Los Angeles, according to a person who works at one of the CBS-owned stations and requested anonymity because policy prohibits disclosing personnel matters.
The person told The Associated Press on Tuesday that longtime anchors
Ann Martin and
Harold Greene will leave when their contracts expire in May. Others, including reporters
Jennifer Sabih and
Jennifer Davis, were laid off Monday.
Technical staff was also trimmed, the person said.
In San Francisco, KPIX-TV is letting go 14 newsroom employees, including anchor and reporter
Rick Quan, and reporters
Manny Ramos, Bill Schechner, Tony Russomano and
John Lobertini, the San Francisco Chronicle reported Tuesday.
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