Posted on 11/23/2015 11:39:28 AM PST by US Navy Vet
Bingo! I couldn’t think of her name.....and she sure fills the hotness quotient.
I agree, and I’m happy she’s leaving. She was never any good and was eye candy. Maybe now they’ll get an actual newscaster in there.
This is a very hot bikini girl, but she is not Anna Kooiman. She is, however, former Fox reporter Courtney Friel. After seeing so many of them at Fox I guess they all start to look alike.
Married again?
I think Tomi signed with Glen Beck
Maybe look at my earlier post,#48. I worded it carelessly in my first response. Sigh
Can’t believe Ailes was paying her $3 million a year. She had no previous news experience and it showed (at times) on the air. However, I admire her for sticking to her conservative values, particularly during those years on The View.
Local news doesn’t pay as well as it once did. Back in the 90s, it wasn’t uncommon to find lead anchors in the Top 5 markets pulling in seven figures. Now, only a handful of anchors like Chuck Scarborough in New York make that kind of money. NBC cut loose his long-time co-anchor, Sue Simmons, simply because they couldn’t afford to pay that kind of money to a local anchor team—especially when they could replace Sue with someone younger, at less than half her salary.
Hasselbeck’s hiring surprised me, especially when Fox had better talent already on the bench.
Actually, I got out of the business many years ago, but still have friends in the industry, both at the local and network levels. It can be an exciting life, but it is also a grind. Top talent can still command big bucks, but entry-level positions pay under $30K a year, and there are a lot of talented reporters who will never see 40K in the business simply because they don’t have the look or entertainment skills.
Two of my classmates from college are TV news directors; one is in a Top 75 market; another in a slightly smaller city. The gentleman in the slightly smaller market has led newsrooms in half a dozen cities, and made it as high as a Top 15 market. Got bounced for the eternal sin of the news business: low ratings. The other guy spent most of his career as a photographer and news operations manager. Finally got a crack at the ND job (in a Top 60 market), but was fired after his morning show tanked.
A third friend has worked as a news director at four different stations over the past 10 years and took a step down the ladder to become an executive producer at a station in a Top 10 market. Not sure if that person will ever get a chance at running a newsroom again. It’s a cutthroat business. Glad I gave it up for a career in the military; I got a decent pension after 20 years and some semblance of health care.l Much better than the uncertainty of the TV business.
On the other hand, I had an intern at one of my radio news gigs who got into the business in a Top 40 market (as a reporter), then jumped to a station in Market #13, where she’s been the lead anchor for 20 years. Of course, she’s drop-dead gorgeous and very good in front of a TV camera. Had Fox News started a few years earlier, she might well have been an early graduate of “Bikini Island,” where Ailes cultivates his blonde anchors.
When I hear from my friends still in the biz, I often think “that could have been me.” Glad it wasn’t.
Congrats to your wife for hanging in there for 25 years. My turning point came after getting blown out in Market #75. Decided to stop by the Air Force recruiting and the rest, as they say, is history.
Thoroughly enjoyed my time in broadcasting, and I still love radio. But unfortunately, the business has changed; most stations got rid of their news departments years ago, and a lot of talented reporters and anchors were forced out of the industry. Still enjoy listening to some of the major market all-news stations like WINS and WCBS-AM in New York or talk outlets with a major news presence like WSB in Atlanta. A few broadcast groups still understand that news can attract an audience and it doesn’t have to be liberal drivel like NPR.
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