Report: WPIX Drops Sports Department
It appears to be the end of an era in New York TV News. Tribune-owned WPIX/Channel 11 is poised to dump its sports department. With it, the New York Post reports Lolita Lopez (left), the station’s sports director, is getting reassigned.
The paper said it wasn’t certain if sports coverage would fall into the laps of the news anchors or if it would be outsourced.
“I hope it’s not the start of a trend, but I’ve heard of other stations around the country doing the same,” former longtime WNBC sports anchor Len Berman (below) says. “I’m
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