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Milwaukee Media Notes: The Caine mutiny obscured other comings and goings

Posted by Duane Dudek
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This year fireworks came before the July 4th holiday.

The big bang on Monday was long time WKLH-FM (96.5) morning show co-host Carole Caine being shown the door when her contract wasn’t renewed. She had been with the station for 29 years.

Industry observers speculated that firing a veteran might be a cost cutting move related to expenses incurred in a copyright infringement settlement by parent company Saga Communications with A. C. Nielsen ratings service.

Saga must also now pay to subscribe to the ratings service at all its stations.

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Exodus begins at Scripps owned WTMJ-TV

Posted by Duane Dudek
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E.W. Scripps Company has begun shuffling the deck chairs at its recently acquired Milwaukee NBC afiliate WTMJ-TV (Channel 4), and a number of on-air people are among the key departures.

They include:

— Sportscaster Jessie Garcia, a Madison native who joined the station in 1994 and is author of “My Life with the Green and Gold.” Her husband is a photographer at the station;

—Meteorologist Michael Fish, a Fond du Lac native who got his master’s degree in meteorology at the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee. He worked at the station part time.

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