Milwaukee Station Kicks Off the Book by Firing the Anchor
WTMJ in Milwaukee got the Feb book off to an interesting start by firing their Anchor.
George Mallet, who rejoined WTMJ in 2016 as the co-anchor of the NBC affiliate's flagship newscast six years after leaving the station, is out again.
"I honestly thought things had been going pretty well," Mallet said. "We had a couple of bad ratings books, but when I first got here we had some successive ratings victories."
Here's the internal memo sent out by WTMJ GM Joe Poss and obtained by FTVLive:
Two years ago, Mallet returned to WTMJ to co-anchor the station's 5 and 10 p.m. newscasts with Carole Meekins. He had left the station in 2010 to become the main anchor at WPTZ-TV, in the Plattsburgh, N.Y., and Burlington, Vt., market.
What his next career step will be is less certain.
"I don't know. I really don't," Mallet said. "I've got to look at my contract to see what my options are. … We'll see where it goes."