No Goodbye for You!!!
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Yesterday, FTVLive told you that WFOR (Miami) has cut ties with Anchor Rudabeh Shahbazi and she just vanished from the air.
Shahbazi did post a hint about her new gig, but it hasn’t exactly been a sweet goodbye from the station.
Shahbazi, who had three months remaining on her contract with CBS, was told she was not allowed to return to the station after informing CBS management that she had landed a “national reporting/anchor” position with a not yet disclosed network.
“I had planned to stay through my contract end date,” Shahbazi wrote in her message to co-workers. Shahbazi said the three months would allow the station time to recruit her replacement and permit a smooth transition to a new face on the main anchor desk, as well as permitting her to bid a grateful farewell to her viewers and colleagues. WFOR General Manager and Vice-President, Adam Levy, would not hear of it, Shahbazi said.
“Adam inexplicably blindsided me on my vacation day and informed me BY EMAIL that I was not welcome back and that they were ending my contract that day,” Shahbazi said.
Shahbazi confirmed to Community Newspapers that her departure from WFOR was an unpleasant one, not of her choosing. “Right now I am concentrating on moving forward in the new position, which I am very excited about,” Shahbazi said. “I am so blessed to have worked at WFOR with such talented, kind, hardworking, amazing people.”
“Please know that this is not how I wanted my departure to occur,” Shahbazi said. WFOR’s General Manager, Adam Levy, and News Director, Liz Roldan, did not return multiple voicemail, text and email requests for comment from Community Newspapers.
