First Local News Broadcast To Cut Sports
While we’ve been hearing a great deal about the struggles of local newspapers, there has not been much chatter about local television news. That might be changing. Yesterday San Diego’s XETV Channel 6 was the first local TV station to completely eliminate their sports department.
Sports director C.S. Keys, reporter and weekend anchor Andrea Nakano and producer Mike Lamar were all let go. Last year the station lost its affiliation with the Fox network, so it could no longer show live sports events.
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