I mean, if Big Papi can drop an F-bomb on TV...?

My God. This isn't New York or L.A. or a network we are talking about.
Yes...let's chalk this up to you being wrong.

 

My God! What wonderful journalism you got going there Drip...digging up that info and everything.

Oh...wait:

Yeah, trying reading the OP maybe?

 

Was getting ready to ask that, spike. I have no TV experience beyond operating a remote, but I would guess that if someone's got a chance to get out of Bismarck, the station's not gonna hold him back!

 

As a "teevee" person here, I'd like to chime in on this...

First, that was inexcusable and an offense worthy of termination. I've been in this rat-race for 20 years and have been lucky to have never been fired. I can say that - one time - have I said one of the 'seven words' on a microphone (and that time never aired). NEVER in a studio. Never ever ever.

Robert Flores lost his main sports anchor job in Austin, TX a few years ago when he dropped an F-bomb on a TAPED sportscast that was to run in the morning (often, after the late news a sports anchor will tape a sportscast for the morning show). He resurfaced a month later in San Antonio and, later, at ESPN. I remember Danyelle Sargent dropped an F-bomb on ESPNEWS and the WWL dropped her soon after.

He deserved to be fired.

I wonder how it even got to the point where the news director there in North Dakota even put this guy on the air. He had a co-anchor and they should have just let her handle the newscast solo. He not only looked lost but incompetent as well. Wrong camera. Nothing to say.

I am definitely not the greatest TV guy in the world but I have never, ever had a "Boom Goes the Dynamite" show or even what this guy endured. Part of that may be my nature and part of it is preparation. I was scared to death for my first TV show but it came off without any awkward situations -- it was 6 minutes of sports with no "sound bites" to break it all up.

To me, I have NO idea how a show can be as awful as some that I've seen.

 

As for non-competes, it depends on the ownership. Some ownership groups actually enforce a contract, holding their reporters to it "to the letter". Most don't as small-market reporters usually have the same skills and make the same $21k.

Anchors almost always have language that is non-compete. Usually 1 year. Most anchors have "outs", meaning they can leave for a specific state, market or position. Like the Lou Holtz "Notre Dame Clause". I have a few of those in mine.

 

Is a guy in Bismarck really going to have a contract?

 

He probably worked for food.

 

I know television people for local news stations in North Dakota that who have contracts.

 

ND, you wouldn't know where North Dakota is on a map even if we spotted you South Dakota, let alone know the contract situation of its on-air news personnel.

 

Um, this kills me to defend Herpes McCreeper, but do you know the meaning of NDJournalist?