[SevenofNine]

Good I never really care for Ann martin I think she is pinhead always asking question during high speed chase coverage

[GOP_Raider]

One of my old friends works at KTVT in Dallas which is another CBS-owned station and they let go of a good couple of dozen employees last week. Fortunately (for him) he stil has a job. I did ask him if he thought breaking the bank to hire Perky Katie into the See-BS family brought some of this on. Didn't really answer me on that...

As a side note...Any of you Angelenos remember Gretchen Carr at KCBS?? I do remember hearing her not getting her contract renewed but that woman was some serious eye candy.

[Myrddin]

Harold Greene was at channel 10 in San Diego before running off to Los Angeles. The fresh faced talent in San Diego eventually ages and departs to KUSI or radio jobs. Like athletes, they have to make the big bucks while they are young.

[La Enchiladita]

This shows you how often I watch the news, as in ‘not often.’ However, I did like Ann Martin, had no idea she was the highest paid. Oh well, end of an era I guess.

[Man50D]

Familiar, friendly faces have been unable to stem, in many cases, double-digit declines in local news viewership in recent years -- much of it attributed to Internet competition and an ever-shrinking lead-in from network programming.

Some how they always seem to leave out the reason that people are fed up with the socialist media bias.

[BigBadVoodooDaddy]

I don’t know much about the LA TV market, but I know CBS is making similar cuts in all of their O&O’s.

Out here in Minneapolis, a very popular weatherman of 20-years was let go in a cost-cutting move, among others (they are also trying to offer buyouts to union photogs and techs).

I’m sure the network revenues were down thanks to the writers strike (ad revenues had to be down for reruns)...lower numbers in general for local news, it’s lots of things.

And it will more than likely continue in other media outlets.

[Misterioso]

Maybe this is connected to the rumored merger of CBS with CNN.

[Anti-Bubba182]

If you don’t have a big show of your own like O’Reilly, the days of the Mega salarys are numbered.

[lainie]

The most obvious sign that the pull of a marquee anchor has diminished is audience size, particularly for evening news shows.

LAME DUCK

I won't be sorry to see Milknose go. (Thank you, April Winchell.) Did Ann Martin get paid more than Paul Moyer!? no. can't be.