We Told You
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Back in mid-May, FTVLive FIRST told you that KCBS Weekend Anchor Elsa Ramon was looking to exit the CBS O&O.
Ramon confirmed on social media that she had left KCBS and it appears that she is leaving TV news altogether.
“It’s a dying business,” Ramon told Urban Hollywood 411 as she shared her thoughts on the television news industry and her future career plans.
While not yet ready to reveal where she is going, she said her new position is in the digital world.
“I still had a year left on my contract, so it was really good of my bosses to let me pursue this other opportunity,” she said.
She says that the schedule of TV news did not work for her or her family. “I was the weekend anchor, weekday reporter, single mom. It just wasn’t working for my family,” she explained.
There were also financial costs, she said.
“Working nights, it cost me more to be on that schedule than what I was paid,” Ramon said. “I spent a fortune on sitters, on my nanny. I just kind of felt like the madness had to stop.”
Pressed as to whether she ever asked for a raise, she said her representatives did just that last summer.
“When my contract came up last August, when I was renewed, we thought we would be able to negotiate a raise,” she noted. “But the company gave no one raises at all. At that point, that’s when I realized that it seems to me that flat is the new raise, and that just wasn’t good enough for me and my family.”
"Flat is the new raise"....isn't that the truth.
