Weeknight anchor Donna Davis and midday anchor Bill Lunn are among the 15 employees being let go by the local NBC affiliate as part of wider cuts by parent company Raycom Media, said WMC general manager Lee Meredith.
With about 150 full-time employees locally, Tuesday's cuts account for 10 percent of the station's work force.
"The broadcasting industry and advertising-based media businesses in general ... are not immune to the many economic difficulties we're facing right now and that our market here in Memphis is facing right now," Meredith said. "For the station to properly position ourselves for the business challenges ahead of us, we have taken the difficult step of making a work force reduction."
Davis, originally from Jackson, Tenn., anchored newscasts at 5 p.m., 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. A University of Memphis graduate, she began her career as a local radio reporter and returned to Memphis in 2000 after TV stints in Fresno, Calif., and Cleveland, Ohio, according to a cached version of her biography on WMC's Web site.
Lunn, who has a master's degree from Northwestern, has worked as an anchor and reporter in Memphis since 1995.
3 comments:
Donna Davis is kind of a huge bitch, but that's mean, people could say that about me...
And my inside source (whose hygiene Donna Davis rather rudely questioned multiple times completely unfounded, by the way)says the major problem is NBC's dismal 9 o'clock time slot. No one's watching channel 5 because no one's watching NBC. CBS affiliates are still sitting pretty. ABC affiliates are fine. The main issue is that NBC needs to get their shit together. Lee Meredith just doesn't want to bite the hand that feeds.
but her eyeshadow always looks like a sunset
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