No one replaced her. When KOMO's parent company, Fisher Communications, launched its own cable news network, SNC (Satellite News Channel) and the local program, Fisher Satellite News, Furness was named news director. References Reporters frequently come and go at local news operations, but firing three in one stroke during May is unusual. Daniela is a bilingual investigative producer for InvestigateTV. In 2002, Lewis and several other KOMO-TV staff members made cameo appearances in the movie Life or Something Like It, which starred Angelina Jolie and Edward Burns. Former KOMO television and radio news anchor Eric Slocum has died at 54. ". Around 8 a.m., ISP Division of Criminal Investigation Zone 6 was requested by the Washington Park Police Department to investigate a reported shooting in the 1200 block of N. 49th Street. But during the conference in Las Vegas, chatter spread that there was a bidding war going on for the station. Former KOMO News reporter Keith Eldridge recently relocated from western Washington to North Carolina. She sued the station for discrimination after the station replaced her with a younger Asian American woman. Thousands of kids lose out on meals during summer vacation. She's pictured anchoring the news in 1979, from a broadcast you can watch on YouTube here. Lee also works as an Evening News Anchor and Chief Investigative Reporter at WVUE. His program on KING, "The Compton Report," helped make him a household name. Milt Furness worked at KOMO from 1967 until 1982, serving as the newsdesk manager, reporter, and anchoring the morning news (in the early 1970s) and the evening news (in the later 1970s and early 1980s). (In 2006, Eric's Little Heroes was discontinued, until strong viewer support brought the feature back in early 2008). It unnecessarily meddles in the employment practices. We rely on donations from readers like you to sustain Crosscut's in-depth reporting on issues critical to the PNW. By Madison Miller August 3, 2019 1:30 am. "And we tried to work out a new payment plan, but the IRS wouldn't work with me.". Four people have been arrested in Washington state on drug trafficking charges, according to U.S. Attorney Nick Brown. In early 2017, the stations investigative unit was dissolved. He also played baseball at WSU as a pitcher (he says with very limited success). In March 2017, word spread among staff that the latest must-run would be about fake newsfrom Sinclairs vice president of news, Scott Livingston. He was a former news anchor in Miami, ran a travel company and made regular appearances as a travel expert on Fox .
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