Dan Winters leaving WHO
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Why do some anchors get their final broadcast to say thank you and others get shoved out the door immediately?
No one else, in the laundry list of exits from WHO in this thread was done that way.
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True. I guess I should preface it by saying it is not an unheard of practice. Dumb especially in this instance where it's not like he is going to take company secrets or anything but not unheard of.No one else, in the laundry list of exits from WHO in this thread was done that way.
Dan Winters leaving WHO
Not radio, but Maxwell (who took over the morning show on WHO after Van and Bonnie) has a new podcast where he and his co-host, Amy, talk about how they were fired. Very interesting. Maxwell's Iowa Coffeecast if anyone's interested. Thanks for posting. That was a refreshingly candid...cyclonefanatic.com
So did Dan, as I recall. Seems like a tough life with crappy hours when you have young kids. And isn't that the reason you left as well?
Maybe in corporate America where you have system access to accounts or something that could potentially cause harm to the company if you did some damage on the way out. But this.is sitting in front of a camera and reporting the news. Elias doesn't seem like the type to burn the house down on the way out either. Guessing some there may take notice and we some more exits as a result. I mean they did do Sonya Hietshuesen dirty a few years ago even if they did come out ok with the age discrimination lawsuit.she filed and lost against them. Meanwhile Roger Riley basically more airtime as a result so pushing out a middle aged woman and giving a man basically the same age or maybe older more air time looked pretty bad. Then they brought in some much younger women to basically take over her anchor and reporting duties too.
Sad to see Elias leave and be shown the door like that too. He did a great job of filling the big shoes of Dan Winters.
The last thing WHO needs is more Andy Fales. I really liked Elias so that is a bummer.
He's just doing interest stories on the side. He's not full time there, they announced a couple months ago he's just be doing some stories from time to time.
Going to be interesting to see if they bring on some new anchors as it's been a lot more Andy and the "part time" anchors at 10 lately. Erin doesn't do 10pm much anymore and Jannay usually does the 9pm on Fox most nights and some 10 on WHO too but it's been noticeable lately how they have had Lisa Carpinelli and Amanda Krenz and apparently even Metinka now covering some of the 10pm newscasts and those 3 usually just cover some of the weekend shifts.
Not a lot of longevity onscreen personnel there now. Ed, Megan & Jeriann on weather, Andy, Erin, and Jannay on anchor duty, Keith and (gag) John on sports. Just seems like a lot of turnover there in the 18 months since Dan left; makes you wonder if it's a behind the scenes issue at the station.
Apparently it's hard to recruit to what resembles Chamber of Commerce sunshine pumpers with bad hours when you could just apply for a 9 to 5 spot.
Isn't Ron Steele about 110 years old? That dude should have retired at least 20 years ago. What a fossil.
