An attorney for Sandra Maas told a jury Tuesday that the longtime news anchor did the same job as her male co-anchor for years, sitting on the KUSI television news desk, leading the flagship . Say the name Rod Luck in the company of longtime San Diego TV news viewers and youre bound to get a reaction. A successful SLAPP motion which Rachel Maddow won against One America News, for example is a way defendants can deter efforts to silence the press. Update: A judge delayed his decision on competing motions until March 11, saying evidence and other issues need to be resolved. Lastly, as KUSI says about FTVLive, a website that provides disparaging blogging about TV news.. [20] At the same time, KFMB-TV lured the Padres from KUSI under a new radio and television contract. He described Denton as more engaged than Maas in the news process, including script editing. 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. He started his sportscasting career in his teens, doing play-by-play commentary for local high schools, colleges and universities. [23][24], KUSI dropped UPN when its affiliation agreement with the network expired on January 16, 1998, citing low ratings for the network's programming locally. Even if someone files a frivolous motion against you, its a relief to win it.. 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He said Maas was hard working, engaging and kind. [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. [51][52] In 2021, KUSI ceased airing content from local iHeartMedia radio stations on its morning show after a segment about "Famous Baby Daddies" was criticized as racist by the San Diego chapter of the NAACP, which noted that it overrepresented Black men and perpetuated stereotypes. 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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 . But it was the inverse here, Maas lawyer suggested. Hail to the queen, ultimate trailblazer and relentless champion of women, Maas said on Instagram. 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. His son Richard told FOX 5 that . Remember TV agents often tell its clients heading there for a job interview to make sure that they said that their favorite football team is the Dallas Cowboys. Theres a tendency to look at the other thing (he did), but he was a good man. A distinguished journalist with a long record of success across the country, San Diegans will enjoy getting to experience the wonderful blend of style, knowledge and integrity shell bring to the market, he said. That ladder that took so many years for me to climb to the top of, I came tumbling down one day. Next steps in the civil case include more depositions, exchange of documents and corralling of witnesses. This is a way for you to make a difference. The construction permit for a channel 51 television station in San Diego was first issued on June 23, 1965, to Jack O. Static.COOKIE_BANNER_CAPABLE = true; KUSI is a TV station in San Diego, but it should really be a soap opera on TV. Instead, he started his own video production company and marketed his services as a motivational speaker. Laurel and her lawyers say KUSI illegally hacked her personal email account and printed out private information, including chats with her husband. Now were moving on to the merits of the case, he said. But instead she sent email on her personal account to Sally Luck, KUSIs longtime director of Human Resources. On Tuesday, Laurel said shes been recently doing freelance work for national ABC News and its website but would soon return locally in an on-air role. 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. No memorial services have been announced. Sadler and KUSI didnt respond to requests for comment. I was kind of being silly, Sadler said, agreeing under oath that yes, I was having fun with it. This week, a judge is expected to pick sides. Booze, drugs too much tore me down, he said in a speech to a high school class posted on his website in 2015. Nor does Plaintiff deny that Gruenberg Law obtained and used MBCs confidential information as a result. [11][12] On September 13, 1982more than 17 years after the permit was grantedthe station finally began broadcasting as KUSI-TV. Contact var Q = Quotation.length; Luck, who passed away from cancer last weekend at age 72, counted on that. SAN DIEGO A San Diego Superior Court jury on Thursday awarded former news anchor Sandra Maas nearly $1.6 million from the company that owns KUSI, finding that the TV station had violated. // ============================================== On Friday hours before Ginsburgs death was announced Judge Ronald Frazier in San Diego Superior Court denied KUSIs demand that Maas pay the conservative station $106,000 in attorney fees. This page is not available in other languages. [45][46], In January 2000, KUSI expanded its news programming into early evenings with the debut of a half-hour newscast at 7:00p.m.;[47] within a few months, however, the program was moved to 6:30p.m. (Laurel has not filed suit.). SAN DIEGO (KUSI) Legendary KUSI News anchor Paul Bloom has passed in his Las Vegas home. Our free newsletter is delivered at 8 a.m. daily. Silently moving on was no longer an option, Maas said. We'll send you the top local news stories every morning at 8 a.m. By clicking subscribe, you agree to share your email address with Times of San Diego to receive our free newsletter and breaking news alerts. [Sadler] figured that Sandra and I were in cahoots together.. [16] An effort by McKinnon to purchase the university's shares failed in late January 1990, after the station filed for bankruptcy protection. Rod Luck, who was an on-camera newsman and personality with KUSI-TV from 1991 to 2008, died Feb. 27 after a battle with cancer. San Diego People. FTVLives goal is just to call it as we see it and report it. Originally anchored by Laura Buxton and Tom Blair (who was later replaced by Stan Miller), it gradually became a competitor to the national morning newscasts. 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. 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. This business is so cut-throat, and she was wonderful to me. Quotation[1] = "'The One-Man Website That Broke the Jay Leno Story' - About.com "; In a news release, Nexstar noted that it expected the transaction would "be accretive to Nexstar's operating results when The CW Network affiliation becomes available in the market". McKinnon then started KUSI's news department, which has since grown to produce newscasts throughout the day. There was an error and we couldn't process your subscription. [8] On June 7, 1977, administrative law judge David I. Kraushaar ruled against the proposed transfer to USIU and its affiliate University Television, Inc., concerned over the financial issues and by cost estimates that were extremely low during a period of major inflation. [21], In November 1995, in an attempt to take the Fox affiliation away from Tijuana-based XETV (channel 6), KUSI filed an appeal against the FCC's decision to grant Fox a permit that was necessary to provide XETV, a Mexican station, with live sports (including NFL games and other programming. 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.. Luck was also candid about the incident that ended his career with KUSI, and how he worked hard to rebuild his life in the years that followed. . Steve Cohen and I met with Ms. Maas to inform her that MBC would permit her employment contract to expire, Luck said in a declaration. Obituary: 1948-2021: Former KUSI newsman Rod Luck rebuilt life in sobriety as speaker Rod Luck, who was an on-camera newsman and personality with KUSI-TV from 1991 to 2008, died Feb. 27 after a. Maas, who worked at CBS 8 in San Diego in the 1990s, started at KUSI as a morning anchor in 2004. SAN DIEGO (KUSI) - Iconic newscaster and former KUSI News anchor Michael Tuck has passed away at 76-years-old. Rod preferred it that way, she said of his preference for phone calls. - Greta Van Susteren" [7] A religious group, Christian Communications Network, intervened in the proceeding in a bid to seek the use of the channel; it provided Christian television programming on local cable. Luck, the HR director, also recalled the May 17, 2019, meeting. His annual salary was $245,000; hers was $180,000. Quotation[10] = "'The statement from New York-based NBC was in response to a report on the FTVLive' - Bloomberg"; God bless Rod, Scott said. It was always amazing to me every time in the field with him how many people would come up to say hello, Curry said. That was a $20,000 raise from her previous salary but still $70,000 less than Dentons final salary of about $250,000. [19] Immediately, McKinnon announced plans to add a 10 p.m. local newscast and use KUSI as a "test market" for new local and national programs. Laurel and her lawyers say KUSI illegally hacked her personal email account and printed out private information, including chats with her husband. Noting a backlog of thousands of prioritized criminal cases with jailed inmates awaiting trial, as well as people seeking restraining orders, I would consider myself fortunate to try any civil case in 2021., Meanwhile, he says Maas is looking for another newscaster job. Meet the Team. Bing News Joins Google and Other News Aggregators in Fueling Polarization'If search engines don't give a fair and even-handed representation of our political environment, we begin to splinter and polarize against one another, harming our democratic society.' Ken Stone of the Times of San Diego writes that KUSI is calling former news anchorAnna Laurela secret agent who sought damaging and confidential information for her attorneys. Scott said it was a hard time of life for Luck, who missed being on TV. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 18, using virtual channel 51. 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. function showQuotation(){document.write(Quotation[whichQuotation]);} It was brought to my attention that Ms. Maas had become distant, unengaged and uninterested in her job, McKinnon told a deposition in December. And so I guess [KUSI] really [didnt] want to hear that. Today was a big victory for Sandra, Maas attorney Josh Gruenberg said Friday. Laurel has retained the same law firm that is representing Maas in her case against the station. KUSI-TV's studios are located on Viewridge Avenue (near I-15) in the Kearny Mesa section of San Diego, and its transmitter is located southeast of Spring Valley. [44] Coleman retired from broadcasting in April 2014 after a 61-year career. [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. And you know youre a personality when they either love you or hate you, he said. Father Joes Villages Turning the Key initiative has a goal of creating 2,000 new units for homeless people. Denton, who had worked in the Bay Area, joined KUSI in 2010. The current CW affiliate in San Diego is a subchannel of KFMB-TV. Another attorney for Maas, Joshua Pang, said there were no records of negative conduct on Maas part. Diane Tuazon. Ken Stone of the Times of San Diego writes that KUSI is calling former news anchor Anna Laurel a "secret agent" who sought damaging and confidential information for her attorneys. Former FOX 5 anchor Paul Bloom dies. I think in the end its going to show how blatant employers can be with regard to paying women less than men for essentially performing the same job functions.. Rod Luck chatted up Virgil Feirrier, left, and William Grodin at the Senior Community Center in downtown San Diego, during a volunteer session in 2016. The alcohol was supposed to have a cleansing effect, but all it did was dirty everything up.. [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". Categories: Local San Diego News A Mckinnon Broadcasting Company Former KUSI News anchor Paul Bloom passes away KUSI-TV (channel 51) is an independent television station in San Diego, California, United States. // to increment the Quotation[x] index! Aside from experience, other factors were at play in the pay differential, including Maas attitude and dedication to the job, Fitzgerald told the jury. Enter address: Whoops! 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Wrong! Theyre in a bubble of their own reality, Laurel said in a phone interview Tuesday. 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. Quotation [14] = " 'FTVLive's Scott Jones one of the Most Important Media Reporters in America'- Mediaite" By 1995, the station was worth an estimated $75million. (Laura Embry /The San Diego Union-Tribune), Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information, Luck told the San Diego Union-Tribune in 2009, Brett Goldstein, also known as Roy Kent on Ted Lasso, plans comedy show in San Diego next week, The Dish: Saint James leads six new restaurant openings and Cucina Sorella says goodbye, San Diego County Fair is back: New foods, new rides, new contests and everything else you need to know, Its National Doughnut Day. [36] At trial, a jury awarded Maas $1.5 million on her whistleblower claim and found KUSI to have violated California's Equal Pay Act, but it rejected the discrimination claims and the contention that the station had acted with malice; McKinnon Broadcasting's lawyer announced an intention to appeal the verdict. [22] The permit was granted to Fox on behalf of XETV, and the case was settled on March 26, 1996. [14] The dispute between the two parties escalated in December 1989, when Michael McKinnon sued the university for $7million, alleging that the university was still using his leased equipment despite not renewing the lease. // Free for all; but please leave in this header. KUSIs attorneys said Denton had a 48-year career, including 11 years in radio before he jumped to TV news. Backers of a 2020 ballot measure that sought to finance an enlarged convention center, homeless services and road repairs will go to court next month in hopes of reversing a judges ruling that the city erred when it claimed the initiative passed, James Charles Kingery, 57, was convicted in killing of Julia Hernandez-Santiago, 26, whose body was found on an ivy-covered embankment, David Rasean Vereen, 23, expected to receive 14-year state prison sentence for the June 2022 shooting of Kevin Burton. I ate too much or I drank too much. 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. Rod had hundreds of business cards from the people he had met in his day-to-day activities. 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Sadler, whom Laurel calls this nasty creep, read through her private emails long after she worked at KUSIs Kearny Mesa headquarters, she says, and a KUSI attorney shared copies of the emails with the court. ), 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. December 7, 2022. She was brilliant and would cover any story with straight-shooting clarity and insight, said former longtime KUSI anchor Laura Buxton. [30] KUSI has continued to operate from its Kearny Mesa studios. Clark was with KUSI from 1990-2000 on the 10:00 p.m. newscast. They were hacking, reading through my emails long after I was working there, she told Times of San Diego. Head Topics, publish breaking news of all around the world. Local headlines and stories are HeadTopics.com immediately. 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. 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. (Maas emceed the event for founder Ernst & Young. 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. That lawsuit is finally playing out in court and another former Anchor is accusing the station of hacking into her personal email. Slid all the way to the bottom. (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. Quotation[7] = "'FTVLive Delivers some of the TV World's Biggest Scoops' - Tonawanda News "; 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. [57] Since 2023, KUSI has aired The CW's coverage of LIV Golf instead of local CW affiliate KFMB-DT2. Quotation [17] = " 'An insider newsy website' - Hoda Kotb" Theyre trying to intimidate me, Laurel said. In 1991, an old friend recruited Luck to San Diegos KUSI-TV, which aimed to distinguish itself from the three local network affiliates with a looser, lighter style of broadcasting that was right in Lucks wheelhouse. SAN DIEGO (KUSI) C.S. [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. Every night he would spend hours on the phone setting up shoots and calling the people hed meet the next morning to prepare them for the live-cast and put their minds at ease. (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. The station is owned by the very conservative McKinnon family and is not run like most stations In the country. Laurel, who worked at KUSI from September 2018 to August 2020, scoffs at that assertion. What will it take to end the Teamsters bus driver strike in San Diego? From 1992 to 2008, Lucks freewheeling and often corny hijinks on KUSI TVs Good Morning San Diego show earned him lots of fans and more than a few foes. Help us grow with a monthly contribution. In a court brief, the stations attorney, Marisa Janine-Page writes, Notably, Plaintiff does not deny that she and her counsel used Anna Laurel, a then current MBC employee, as a secret agent to gather information from her employer and share it with Plaintiff and her attorney, Gruenberg Law, to use it against MBC, a represented party in this litigation.. Our free newsletter is delivered at 8 a.m. daily. 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). It is the sole property of locally based McKinnon Broadcasting Company. With the generous support of readers like you, Times of San Diego publishes timely and accurate news coverage for a better-informed community. He talked about his unusual style of participatory journalism in a 2015 video posted on his personal website, rodluckonline.com. And after Maas raised concerns about her pay, her contract was not renewed, attorney Josh Gruenberg said. Rainbow Oaks restaurant will continue playing National Anthem despite liberal outrage -. // ====================================== Our position is those belong to Ms. Laurel alone and have nothing to do with the case. Two years earlier, when she first learned that even less senior men made more than her, Maas began seeking a raise from her news director but was given the runaround, her lawsuit says. He also said there were no memos or other evidence that KUSI based the differences in pay on experience. According to the lawsuit, Maas' male counterpart was. Laurel and her lawyers say KUSI illegally hacked her personal email account and printed out private information, including chats with her husband. Subsequently, in July 2001, an additional half-hour newscast at 6:00p.m. was launched,[48] followed by a half-hour of news at 11:00p.m. in January 2005. It went silent on March 15, 2019, as its former channel 12 was reassigned to KDOC-TV in the Los Angeles area. The 10 p.m. newscast was followed by the introduction of a morning newscast in January 1994. [1], After considering the possibility in 1984 when it advertised positions for a news director and anchors,[38] KUSI became active in the local television news race when it launched its news department with the introduction of an hour-long 10:00p.m. newscast on September 26, 1990; it launched without fanfare, deemed ready for air after days of rehearsals. 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. 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. Klein's imminent exit was first reported by FTVLive' - NY Times"; Quotation [13] = " '(FTVLive) is a Mad Blogger'- Piers Morgan" _taboola.push({flush: true}); Clark was with KUSI from 1990-2000 on the. . Clark was diagnosed with cancer two years ago and passed away Thursday at the age of 69. Under that agreement, Broadmoor would honor a deal brokered with the university, which had also applied for the channel, to acquire 50 percent. [37], On May 8, 2023, Nexstar Media Group announced its intent to purchase KUSI-TV for $35 million, pending FCC approval; this would create a duopoly with Fox affiliate KSWB-TV (channel 69). Quotation [15] = " 'FTVLive Reported the Story First'- NY Times" [62] This station was out of service for several years due to repacking-related reasons. A week before her final newscast at KUSI, Maas told Times of San Diego, she had a very meaningful conversation with Ernest Rady at the Entrepreneur of the Year Awards at The Fairmont Grand Del Mar. 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