Battle Over Makeup at Nexstar station
/In the middle of a global pandemic one of the big concerns of talent at Nexstar’s KTLA is about makeup.
Makeup?
Sources inside the station tell FTVLive that a makeup battle is brewing at KTLA between anchors and station management.
Because of COVID-19, the station canceled the makeup artist that came into the station back in March. That meant that the longtime makeup artist could no longer touch up the faces of those who sat behind the anchor desk.
When salons were allowed to open back up, the station did not allow the makeup artists to return to the dismay of talent.
Now, the state of California has closed salons again due to the outbreak, but it dose allow makeup artists to work outside their stores. Many are now doing so on the sets of movie productions that have begun filming again.
Sources tell FTVLIve that at last weeks Nexstar/KTLA meeting, during the virtual Q&A, KTLA Anchor Courtney Friel asked when makeup would return to the station.
KTLA General Manager Janene Drafs responded that the station was “looking into it.”
Station sources say that Production Manager Chris Reilly has told anchors makeup will not be returning because salons and various services in the beauty industry are halted right now.
KTLA shop steward Eric Spillman reportedly told Riley in an email that KTLA is a television station not a salon and thus we should not not have makeup because of what's happening in the beauty industry in California.
Talent is concerned that this is a station cost-cutting move and that makeup will never return to the station and that Nexstar is using the pandemic as an excuse to put the kibosh on the blush.
First world problems.
