I have a similar story. I was a 10 year radio then television industry veteran. Had climbed the ladder and was mid senior management for a major broadcast company.
I got let go in December. They didn't give me a reason. I firmly demanded HR to tell me why I was being let go. They refused to answer. However they did buy out the rest of my contract and are paying me through March so I don't know if I got fired for cause or if this was budget cuts.
Either way, I am glad to finally be out of the industry. I had planned on leaving the industry in 2018, but my most recent company hired me at the end of 2018 with an offer I couldn't refuse. Also it allowed me to leave California. I now live in Nevada.
Glad to be out of the cesspit known as television. When I first started, yeah, national media was biased, but local news was still somewhat sane. Not so much the case anymore. Local news is just as bad as national news now.
It sucks because there are some really good people who work in the sales departments at these local TV stations. That's the one thing that prevents me from completely shitting all over TV, because there are based people in the sales wing. It's the news/content wing that is totally cucked.
I have a similar story. I was a 10 year radio then television industry veteran. Had climbed the ladder and was mid senior management for a major broadcast company.
I got let go in December. They didn't give me a reason. I firmly demanded HR to tell me why I was being let go. They refused to answer. However they did buy out the rest of my contract and are paying me through March so I don't know if I got fired for cause or if this was budget cuts.
Either way, I am glad to finally be out of the industry. I had planned on leaving the industry in 2018, but my most recent company hired me at the end of 2018 with an offer I couldn't refuse. Also it allowed me to leave California. I now live in Nevada.
Glad to be out of the cesspit known as television. When I first started, yeah, national media was biased, but local news was still somewhat sane. Not so much the case anymore. Local news is just as bad as national news now.
It sucks because there are some really good people who work in the sales departments at these local TV stations. That's the one thing that prevents me from completely shitting all over TV, because there are based people in the sales wing. It's the news/content wing that is totally cucked.