Posted on 06/12/2021 7:29:04 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
Birmingham, Ala. anchor Chris Sign was found dead by first responders Saturday morning. He was 45.
Sign first worked at ABC affiliate WBMA between 2000 and 2005. He came back in 2017 as a weeknight anchor after working as a reporter and then a morning anchor at KNXV in Phoenix for almost 13 years.
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She hasn’t posted since 2016.
Sign was a member of the 1992 Alabama Crimson Tide National Championship squad. This is shocking news.
Sympathies to his family.
here comes gas_dr...
Well said… That’s been my sentiment exactly.
Rather see the despicable get their Mussolini Moment or Ceacescu Protocol here and now.
I smiled when Ceacescu got his… I still smile when I think of it.
The Hildebeast never gives up a grudge. Eventually, she gets her victims in the crosshairs.
He seemed to have a lot to live for to commit suicide
-PJ
He also wrote a book..
Secret On The Tarmac
There are no coincidences when it involves The Clintoons
Yes. He seemed like a great guy. Prayers for his wife and sons.
Is there depreciation on this type of contract or does it hold its principle value over time?
Maybe a stimulus payment could keep these workers home?
-PJ
Another to add to the clinton body count.
So very sad.
Doesn’t seem like a typical candidate for suicide.
But then, who knows?
And has repurposed her web site for gardening or sewing or some such. Fortunately all the old Clinton Downside legacy stuff is still there at The Wayback Machine (archive.org).
I’m guessing heart attack or drugs.
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Or made to look that way....
That story probably killed his career.
The excerpt pretty much tells the rest:
“Birmingham, Ala. anchor Chris Sign was found dead by first responders Saturday morning. He was 45.
Sign first worked at ABC affiliate WBMA between 2000 and 2005. He came back in 2017 as a weeknight anchor after working as a reporter and then a morning anchor at KNXV in Phoenix for almost 13 years.”
The way career progression works in media for presenters/on-camera reporters/anchors is that you start out in some backwater/podunk little market like, well, Birmingham. If you do well there, they invite you to move to a larger market in a lower level position. In this case, Phoenix. If you keep on at your career, you repeat the cycle over and over until you get to national level or you get told this is as far as the industry will let you go. The only way you go back to a smaller market once you’re an anchor (instead of staying in that or a similar size market, or going to a larger market) is by screwing up in some way or making your boss hate you. The fact that he didn’t stay in that market or get moved to a larger market (there’s perhaps one to perhaps four more ‘steps’ before getting to national level from Phoenix) may indicate that he was told that he was going to have to go back to the junior farm team affiliate because breaking that story meant that he couldn’t stay in Phoenix due to pissing off his bosses. Or their real bosses, the Democratic Party.
Realizing that your career is basically over at the age of 45 has caused no shortage of men to commit suicide.
Uh no. He had offers to go to big media and turned them down for his children. He has received many death threats. He moved to Birmingham for safety.
You’re going to get death threats any time you do anything in media these days.
Also, moving back would just make the story an indirect career killer. Much like promotions in the military, turning one down except under certain very limited circumstances usually means that no more will be offered to you.
Moving to larger media markets would have meant that he would have had more money and resources to protect his kids, BTW.
Media sure leaves out some interesting details.
I remember when Chris stayed in Gulf Shores during Hurricane Opal. It took major courage to stay in a Condo while the Hurricane was pummeling Gulf Shores.
He was one of the best and most unbiased reporters on 33/40.
Prayers for the family.
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