After McKinnon Broadcasting sold its two Texas stations, KBMT in Beaumont and KIII in Corpus Christi, to the London Broadcasting Company in separate transactions in 2009 and 2010, KUSI became the company's only remaining television station property. [30] KUSI has continued to operate from its Kearny Mesa studios. He was like an ambassador; a man of the people who identified with the working man in a way I have not seen anyone do. Wrong! That was a $20,000 raise from her previous salary but still $70,000 less than Dentons final salary of about $250,000. The Hot Spot program launched in October and picks up trash from sidewalks and streets. The reality is that women newscasters have a much shorter shelf life than male newscasters, Gruenberg said in a phone interview. He talked about his unusual style of participatory journalism in a 2015 video posted on his personal website, rodluckonline.com. [28], In 1998, KUSI started to plan a new state-of-the-art streetside studio facility along with 194 apartments in downtown San Diego near the convention center. // ====================================== Our position is those belong to Ms. Laurel alone and have nothing to do with the case. And you know youre a personality when they either love you or hate you, he said. It is the sole property of locally based McKinnon Broadcasting Company. KUSI-TV (channel 51) is an independent television station in San Diego, California, United States. Even if someone files a frivolous motion against you, its a relief to win it.. Join the Team. 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A filing for channel 15 was objected to by public safety users in the Los Angeles area, which use channel 15 frequencies for communications purposes; a series of legal hurdles and engineering challenges delayed the construction of a channel 3 facility.[63]. [11] It operated as a general entertainment independent station, airing a mix of children's programs, sitcoms, older movies, and sporting events. The situation, in which Gross reached sale agreements with two different buyers, prompted the FCC to designate an application to extend the life of the construction permit for hearing in late 1968, by which time the university had changed its name to United States International University (USIU). (In fact, even before being let go, she wrote the rival CBS affiliates president and general manager: checking in to see if there are any upcoming anchor opportunities at KFMB.), She would love to become re-employed, Gruenberg said. There was one time we were doing a live shot in the Gaslamp and a trash truck drove by and they all got out to say hello to him. In fact, I would cringe because I would wake up in the morning and have texts from my friends all over the country in the business Is this your station again? It was terribly embarrassing.. Buzzworthy: Honeybee health blooming at federal facilities across the country, Church associate arrested in death of pastor, councilwoman gunned down outside her New Jersey home, Opinion: Downtown residents concerned about plans to rework Petco Parks Gallagher Square, Opinion: Finally, theres a critic Sheriff Kelly Martinez cant ignore federal Judge Jinsook Ohta, Impassioned parents start nonprofit to serve disabled adults in North County. In the end, Fitzgerald said, KUSI news director Steve Cohen decided Maas was not a good fit for a fresh news format the TV station was moving toward. We plan to take Allen Dentons deposition, who [sat] next to her for many years. (She disputes that and on Thursday added that KUSI had access to her account until she found out in early December 2021 and she changed her password. Jim Desmond: Congestion pricing aims to change our behavior, pushes for public transit, Silver Gate Yacht Club to host 61st annual Wheelchair Regatta, $1 Million-Plus Powerball ticket sold in Bonita. If KUSI feels that the FTVLive stories about their station and how its run are disparaging maybe they need to look at how they run their station. Yes, but that was not Rod.. He is survived by his wife, Susan, and three children from his first marriage, Christopher, Gretchen and Melissa, as well as several siblings. But KUSI president and general manager Michael D. McKinnon Jr., news director Steve Cohen and Human Resources director Sally Luck implied in depositions that Maas didnt deserve the same pay as Denton. [41] On January 5, 1994, the station debuted a two-hour weekday morning newscast from 6:00 to 9:00a.m. Its just been infuriating and upsetting.. At his high school in East Helena, Mont., he played football, track and baseball, but his dream was to report on sports rather than play them. // to increment the Quotation[x] index! Maas attorney Joshua Pang told Times of San Diego: Were actually fighting for KUSI to give us all her emails in their possession. But hey, if the shoe fits, lace that bitch up and wear it all over Souther California. Theyre in a bubble of their own reality, Laurel said in a phone interview Tuesday. I was good at what I did, a true personality. 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SAN DIEGO (KUSI) Former KUSI news anchor and longtime San Diego newscaster Cathy Clark has died at the age of 69 after a battle with cancer. In court papers, Sadler says Laurels Gmail account was left open on a shared laptop, and he was reviewing them to protect the company., The Times says that the San Diego Police Department is investigating the matter, Laurel says, and the City Attorneys Office is definitely interested in this case.. His annual salary was $245,000; hers was $180,000. Static.COOKIE_BANNER_CAPABLE = true; KUSI is a TV station in San Diego, but it should really be a soap opera on TV. [2] The permit was issued after applications by Gross and California Western University of San Diego were filed the year before; Gross proposed a conventional independent station, while the private university planned a station with a "high educational and cultural content". She alleged that she had begun seeking a raise in 2017 after learning that men with less seniority at the station made more money than her, and when she sought the same salary that her recently departed co-anchor, Allen Denton, was working$70,000 more than her ownher contract was not renewed. By 1995, the station was worth an estimated $75million. [33] Documents in the case also contained the allegation that, in the wake of the dispute, KUSI refused to cover an equal pay dispute involving the United States women's national soccer team. Posted: May 5, 2023. Quotation [16] = " 'FTVLive.com a website I go too often for the latest news about the TV business (you should, too!)' In a curious detour from Sandra Maas equal-pay lawsuit against McKinnon Broadcasting Co. and its independent station, San Diego Superior Court Judge Ronald Frazier will hear dueling motions Friday in the 3-year-old case. And hopefully the case will serve as a deterrent to stations that start firing women as they hit their early or mid-50s.. Apparently, if gives you a better chance of landing the job. [4], FCC administrative law judge Basil P. Cooper in 1970 ruled that Gross had trafficked in the permit, by retaining an interest without the obligation to make further funds available,[4] but granted the time extension. They were hacking, reading through my emails long after I was working there, she told Times of San Diego. I was sending emails in the privacy of my own home, and hes reading them.. He said he was in a blackout state of drunkenness when he struck the woman at a San Francisco hotel. Her email is mostly under seal, and Frazier was to view them Friday behind closed doors. (Laurel has not filed suit.). Quotation [19] = " 'FTVLive.com, a prominent television industry website' - Lexington Herald Leader" Quotation[10] = "'The statement from New York-based NBC was in response to a report on the FTVLive' - Bloomberg"; Theyre trying to intimidate me, Laurel said. Even so, McKinnon said that in May 2018, he offered her a $20,000 raise and a three-year contract, which would have kept her employed as a KUSI anchor through the summer of 2021. He said Maas, then 55, accepted the raise but declined the three-year offer. | SAN DIEGO (KUSI) Former KUSI news anchor and longtime San Diego newscaster Cathy Clark has died at the age of 69 after a battle with cancer. ), Among texts and emails discovered were communications that KUSI considers attempts to sway public opinion against McKinnon Broadcasting by inducing at least three of its employees to breach their duties of loyalty and confidentiality to MBC., On July 6, 2019, KUSI alleges, Maas coaxed MBC employee Ashlie Rodriguez to breach her legal and contractual duties to MBC., KUSI said Maas texted Rodriguez: Have someone not you leak the story to Diane Bell at the Union Tribune [and] also leak it to [Karla Petersen at the U-T], referring to MBCs confidential information about its broadcast coverage choices to cover local news instead of a national news story about the U.S. Womens National Soccer team lawsuit., (Rodriguez apparently knew that KUSI allegedly refused to air a report on the equal pay suit settled this week for $24 million. [13], By the end of the decade, however, the university's financial condition had worsened again; further, the Western Association of Schools and Colleges was threatening to revoke its accreditation. Gruenberg said Maas at times got frustrated and she could be sassy and human but he said lawyers for McKinnon cherry picked negative behavior to present to the jury. It was always amazing to me every time in the field with him how many people would come up to say hello, Curry said. He wore it on his sleeve. // To add more quotations, continue with the Rod had hundreds of business cards from the people he had met in his day-to-day activities. Her lawsuit, filed in San Diego Superior Court, alleges the company violated state laws against unequal pay, age and gender discrimination, and whistleblower retaliation. For the Finnish swear word, see, UPN affiliation, Fox push and return to independence, Western Association of Schools and Colleges, United States women's national soccer team, transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts, Channel 9 branded TV stations in the United States, Channel 18 digital TV stations in the United States, Channel 51 virtual TV stations in the United States, "Nexstar Buying Independent KUSI San Diego For $35 Million", "Hearing Reset On Applications For Channel 51", "Question of trafficking in KJOG-TV hearing", "(41 FCC 2d 729) Memorandum Opinion and Order", "Channel 51 to Offer Culture . Quotation [12] = "'has handed in his resignation, according to FTVLive.com' - TVNewser" As for KUSIs CFO, in a deposition, Stephan Sadler said he anonymously shared printed emails from Laurels account putting them in two separate envelopes and addressing them to Luck by spelling her first name with cut-out letters from a magazine to make it look like a ransom note. [29] However, in the fall of 2007, the site that was intended to house its new studio facilities was eventually sold to a development company for residential and mixed-use construction. Janine-Page defended it by arguing Laurel gave consent to KUSI viewing her email by using KUSIs information systems during her employment. [17] When the agreement to sell to McKinnon collapsed, USIU asked some of its highest-paid employees to delay picking up their paychecks. First off, Laurel is correct in saying, a lot of people dont like KUSI. FTVLive hears from a number of current and former employees at the station and we have nor would we ever reveal who those people are. // ====================================== December 7, 2022. This business is so cut-throat, and she was wonderful to me. Diane Tuazon. However, the FCC's review board, later joined by the full commission, reversed the initial decision in 1972 and denied the application for more time to build the station. A year later, USIU hired the McKinnons to provide financial and management support to USIU, with an option to buy a minority stake. San Diego's More Local News Station. . Instead, he started his own video production company and marketed his services as a motivational speaker. On Aug. 26, 2020, Laurel meant to write Gruenberg Law attorney Daphne Delvaux. USIU was anxious to sell the station and receive a much-needed cash infusion to pay down debt, but McKinnon's ownership of 26 percent of University Television gave him veto power over any proposed transaction, and he had made several offers to buy out USIU. Dave's World Of Wonder. Quotation[4] = "'FTVLive a TV news website that is often on the money' - LA Times"; He wore special sunglasses on-air to protect his left eye, which had optic nerve damage from a previous stunt, and his frequent pratfalls caused permanent damage to his spine and hands. During closing arguments Wednesday, an attorney for Maas told jurors that Maas and Denton did the same job, but KUSI paid Maas a lower salary because of her gender. Laurel and her lawyers say KUSI illegally hacked her personal email account and printed out private information, including chats with her husband. Laurel, who worked at KUSI from September 2018 to August 2020, scoffs at that assertion. Local headlines and stories are HeadTopics.com immediately. SAN DIEGO There's no question former KUSI news anchor Sandra Maas was paid a lower annual salary than her male co-anchor on the TV station's flagship newscast. He started his sportscasting career in his teens, doing play-by-play commentary for local high schools, colleges and universities. Rodney Luck was born Aug. 28, 1948, in Cleveland, Ohio, and was 5 years old when his family moved to Montana. Former FOX 5 anchor Paul Bloom dies. In any case, Cohen said that on May 17, 2019, he and Luck met with Maas to inform her that MBC would permit her employment contract to expire., He said he told Maas that KUSI was transitioning the way it reported the news from cold teleprompter reading to a more engaged, conversational broadcast style a new generation of news broadcast., And based on his observations and professional judgment, Cohen said: I did not believe Ms. Maas would have been effectively utilized in this changing style of broadcasting. [22] The permit was granted to Fox on behalf of XETV, and the case was settled on March 26, 1996. 5/5/2023 8:05:00 PM Former KUSI News anchor Paul Bloom passes away Source KUSI News SAN DIEGO (KUSI) - Legendary KUSI News anchor Paul Bloom has passed in his Las Vegas home. Sandra Maas, the former news anchor suing KUSI, never met Ruth Bader Ginsburg, but the Supreme Court icon was on her mind this weekend after overcoming a speed bump in her own pursuit of justice. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 18, using virtual channel 51. Laurel believes the station is trying to intimidate her because they believe she is going to testify on behalf of Maas in her case against KUSI. The question is why?. Eligibility for Project Homekey funding is key driver in pursuit of hotels rather than tiny homes or pallet shelters. 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Maas says Denton, on his last day at work (Feb. 28, 2019), told her his pay. [39] Originally anchored by veteran television anchors Roger Grimsby and George Reading,[40] it was the first television station in San Diego to begin producing local newscasts since XETV's original news department folded in 1972, after it lost the ABC affiliation to KCST-TV. Thank you and farewell to all the KUSI viewers who have watched and supported me for the past 15 years. Maas attorneys said Maas worked in broadcast television for 33 years, compared to Dentons 37 years on TV. On to the next adventure #KUSINews pic.twitter.com/PdgsGmEzJB, Sandra Maas (@SandraMaas) June 17, 2019. How bad will the harmful algal bloom in western Lake Erie be this year?Researchers are predicting a moderate harmful algal bloom for western Lake Erie this year, unless the amount of rain from May to July is close to or below average. 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