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An Overall Toxic Work Environment

I would not recommend this station to anyone. I got hired under another News Director, but unfortunately left because the station does not care about anyone. The News Director they hired worked in Master Control and has no idea what he is doing. If you are looking for a place to grow and learn. DO NOT COME HERE! There is no sales department or HR. The GM does not even live in the area and has no idea what happens at the station. The News Director does not even know what stories you do. Some days he wont even show up. He probably works 4 hours a day. The newsroom has absolutely no guidance and is basically run by a bunch of 23 year olds. Severely understaffed, because everyone is miserable and wants to get out. The creepy engineer lives in the building and showers in the girls bathroom. It is not a place you feel comfortable at and you constantly feel like you are walking on eggshells.

Absolutely no resources and they will never get any. The News Director told us we were basically a tax write off for the owner of the company. You are better off doing a post-grad internship then working here.

An Overall Toxic Work Environment

I would never recommend this station to anyone. No one cares about you as an employee. The station is severely understaffed and underfunded. No constructive criticism. No live capabilities. You'll be promised things that will never happen. They hire people with no experience. Quantity over quality.

Don't work here.

Sexual Harassment, An Overall Toxic Work Environment

It started with an evening anchor who was both verbally abusive and made lots of inappropriate sexual comments. Upper management knew of the issues, but never did anything. The news director was lazy, selfish and a down right spiteful woman. She maybe worked at most 4 hours a day and all she did was show up and critique the stories and work we had done for the day, without contributing to the newscasts at all. Instead of being a leader and positive role model to our station, she was constantly putting the staff and our efforts down. The general manager never cared about the success of our station as he would come up from Green Bay, maybe a couple times a year.

It is a failing news station in that market. They do not do enough promotions or advertising for the people in the area to even know they exist. The reporters and anchors worked extremely hard to put a 6 &11 newscast together without any help or guidance from the News Director. After my two year contract was over, I left on my own terms and she tried to sabotage my reputation by calling places I had applied at and illegally telling them not to hire me. This station has the opposite of good ethics and morals. It is quite sad because the talent of the rest of the staff has been constantly overshadowed by the bad press of the news station.