Last week was one filled with drama at Los Angeles television station KTLA which reached the other side of the country as 77 WABC radio host Frank Morano chimed in on the situation.
A quick summary of what occurred was that anchor Lynette Romero had a sudden exit from the station that KTLA announced publicly. Afterward, her co-anchor Mark Mester delivered a monologue on-air, criticizing the station for its decision to let Romero go.
Morano disagreed with how Mester handled the situation by going on the station’s airwaves and bashing them for their opting to move on from his co-anchor.
“There’s nothing wrong with saying you’re sorry you see your partner go; I’ve done that,” Morano said on Monday. “But you do it in a respectful way. You can’t go out of your way, as this guy did, to criticize your employer on their station.
“If you want to put something on Facebook or on Twitter, ‘I just want you to know I made my remarks on television. I’m going to add, I don’t think the way KTLA handled this was appropriate, and I just wanted to say so.’ But for him to carry on this way on their station, I have very little sympathy for this guy.”
Nearly a week since the situation went public, E! News did provide more information regarding the morning shifts morale following the unexpected departure of the two former KTLA anchors.
“Morale on the morning shift has been very strong this weekend,” a station source said.
“The team came together, rallied around each other with a feeling of camaraderie, having the awareness that many viewers have posted on social media that they will be boycotting KTLA this weekend.”
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This is in response to Frank Morano’s comments regarding Mark Mester. First of all Morano’s missing the point of why Mark was so upset. KTLA is known for making the newscasters like one of the family. If Morano had ever tuned in to a broadcast, he would know that every time a newscaster gets married, has a baby, leaves the station, retires, or gets an award it’s shared with the viewers. Usually with some type of fanfare. That’s what use to separate KTLA from other local news stations. To make such random comments about Mark making a big issue of her absence, just demonstrates his inability to get what the morning news represented. Morano sounded just like the big conglomerate broadcasting stations that
are cold-hearted and insensitive. I understand that.
Don’t have personal feelings,
and definitely don’t go against the status quo. Mark stood up for what he believed. Unlike most people!
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Kudos to Mark for doing what he did. I live in Topeka KS and I have been following the news about Lynette and Mark. Congrats Lynette!!
Lynette will fade away on KNBC, she peaked on KTLA.
Mark will continue to carve their initials on city trees for years to come.