Anonymous emailer says: 7;s Marilyn Mitzel Fired. check the website; bio’s gone
I think, I’m not sure, but this isn’t it around the time her contract was up for renewal? I could be wrong.
Will try to get more info
Update 10:04pm – Anon emailer says Mitzel was let go. WSVN allegedly told her the station was moving in a different direction. The emailer also said that she is already calling stations in the market.
So I guess my gut feeling was right when WHDH let go of Todd Gross saying the station was moving in a different direction that someone at WSVN would also be let go. Or is this reason just a nicer way for TV stations to gently get rid of people they don’t want anymore?
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Earlier –WHDH fires long time weatherman
Marylin Mitzel bio – /Google cache/
That whole station blows !!!!!!!!
That is absolutely hard to believe. She is like a fixture there. And she has just been through a very hard family time and took quite a leave of absence. To let her go weeks after she returned from this is just shocking. Channel 7 isn’t the heartless place some of you make it out to be, especially not to their extremely long-time employees. I would find this a highly unusual and seriously hard-to-believe decision. Wow…..
W/ those eyebrows she should have been let go months ago
While I didn’t care for her I think it was very gold to let her go at this time. I hope she can catch on somewhere else.At this station no one is safe except their clowns. Starting with their main anchor
WOW. I really wasn’t crazy about her either, but she’s been there forever…
She will probably go to CBS4. When the reference is made to the station going in a different direction, what does that really mean?
It means they really dont have a reason. They just want you (that person) gone.
Wow! i liked her alot, i’m certain a worthy group will pick her up…svn really really sux now….i hope elita’s tata’s can keep them afloat…..personally i think its an age discrimination thing but oh well……take care t-rex
I was never a big fan. She did all her stories from her house! How lazy can you be? Not to mention, she had gone a little too far with the plastic surgery.
Sunbeam stations are taking a plummet…
From 10:04 update: WSVN allegedly told her the station was moving in a different direction.
I have spoken to todd gross over e-mail several times and he said WHDH in Boston told him the same.
wow…anybody know who their new health specialist might be?
Hopefully someone with a med degree, or at least knowledge.
I highly doubt there will be a “healthcast” or “health specialist” anymore….I have a feeling that’s the “direction” they’re moving in
I wouldn’t be surprised if she shows up on CBS4. For one thing, several other ex-WSVN employees are already there, like Robb Hanrahan and Beatriz Canals. Even former news director and VP Joel Cheatwood was employed in a similar capacity before moving on, IIRC.
Brian Andrews is also over there. WFOR and WBLS have a huge studio and like another comment that was left before was true its like they rented them just a corner in the station. Also what do you guys think about America TeVe 41???
Are you kidding me, a “huge studio?” WFOR by far has the smallest studio I’ve ever seen! Half of their set sits in the hallway depending on which show it is! You couldn’t be more wrong
Mitz, had a two year contract which she signed about a year ago…Also, I used to work with her a few years back and she didn’t work from her house then…She had lots of field producers doing packages for her, but she did a lot of her own stuff. She had to come up with ten packages a week, plus substitute anchoring…she worked pretty hard compared to somebody like Patrick Frasier or Lynn Martinez
That’s because patrick frasier is related (by marriage) to someone in management.