Posted on 02/16/2007 7:07:55 PM PST by STARWISE
As TVNewser first reported yesterday, Fox News sent a letter to John Ferriter, agent of weekend anchor Kiran Chetry, blasting the pair's contract demands and severing relations with his client. Fox and Chetry were in the middle of contract renegotiations.
Fox News legal VP Dianne Brandi writes:
You have treated Fox News with such arrogant disregard that we do not desire to do any further business with you. You refused to enter into good faith negotiations despite your client's statements that she wanted to remain at Fox News and was happy with the renumeration we had offered. You and your client's unprofessional demand that we include a clause in her new agreement which would have been detrimental to other Fox News talent is simply not the way we conduct business.
What was the demand? A TVNewser source speculates it could've had something to do with Chris Knowles, Chetry's husband and Fox News weatherman. (Nah, it won't be too awkward for Knowles in the office or anything. Not at all.)
The letter also stated that Chetry was "free to leave" before her contract expires on March 6.
Well, guess who showed up on CNN this morning filling in for Soledad O'Brien. Kiran Chetry.
No official hiring announcement has been made from CNN.
UPDATE: It's official.
Fox News' letter to Chetry's agent:
http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/original/chetryfeb15.pdf
Star quality...mark my words. LOL!
And what happened to Julian on the weekend shows?
No it sounds like she was promised the gig. I don't know if it was before or after they hired put Gretchen there.
I would hope Kiran only instructed her agent to try and get her the gig. I would hate to think they she conspired along with the agent who was playing hard ball.
I am deeply saddened.
---find an editor, quick.
Yeah, but some of the Univision chicks wear their lipstick like Judy Garland when she was at the height of her boozing and pill taking.
She is great..... oh and she is also smoking hot.
Moving to a smaller market isn't a very bright career move...
Long time gone. He was so bad that they were receiving more than usual emails and were both the weekend laughing butts and dissed all the time on conservative sites like FR.
'And what happened to Julian on the weekend shows?'
Yes I liked him ,too. The only ones who I found annoying were Mike and Juliet....
As they say on Wall Street, Bulls and Bears make money, but pigs get eaten! But sometimes the pigs are told to find food elsewhere.....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauren_Green
Lauren Green (born June 30, 1963) is a religion correspondent for Fox News Channel. Her past position was giving the top- and bottom-of-the-hour headline updates weekdays during the morning television show Fox & Friends. She also covers arts for the network.
I can't take my eyes off that cross:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0DF4l4nMMI
Good riddance. I never liked her anyway.
I think Julian got fired when he got demanding, just like Rita Cosby and Kiran. Don't mess around with Fox.
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