FTVLive FIRST told you that CBS had fired the GM at both their LA Station and Chicago station after a months-long investigation into problems at the O&O’s.

The investigation started after the company started looking into then CBS Television Stations President Peter Dunn and VP of News David Friend.

Dunn and Friend were fired and the investigation continued.

Back on July 6th, in a Patron only story, FTVLive wrote, “Staffers at the station point to KCBS/KCALGeneral Manager Jay Howell, who was a huge supporter of Peter Dunn, even after CBS suspended Dunn” 

 Word is that just before that story was posted by FTVLive, Howell had driven his Porsche from Los Angeles to his cottage on Conneaut Lake in Pennsylvania, where he planned to stay for the Summer.

In other words, the General Manager of an LA station was planning on doing his job from thousands of miles away, sitting on a lake in Pennsylvania.

After the FTVLive story dropped, insiders say Howell cut short his PA plans and made it back to LA where he was fired from his job.

While many inside the CBS food chain said that Howell needed to go, some add that CBS did not go far enough.

“Getting rid of Jay alone won’t change the culture at KCBS,” said one KCBS/KCAL insider.

One insider points to the HR department at KCBS/KCAL saying that they, “allowed all the problems and retaliation to persist” at the station.

“What’s more the same problem middle managers who have created a toxic work environment are still there even after years of being in last place in the ratings, “said one person that worked at the station for years. “It’s not much of a shake up when CBS brings in GM’s and ND’s who defer decisions to the same people who have run that place into the ground. CBS needs to clean house and that means targeting other managers as well,” the insider told FTVLive.

In Chicago, WBBM General Manager Derek Dalton was also relieved of his duties as part of the investigation.

So, CBS spent months doing an investigation and a total of 4 people were let go and the company says the investigation has concluded.

There are still many at CBS that think the company did not go far enough.

“Putting systemic racism and misogyny back on the GMs is tone-deaf,” said one insider to FTVLive.

Another insider emailed FTVLive:

“The CBS housecleaning rivals North Korea, the Kremlin, and the GODFATHER for cold efficiency. The big question is: Will details of the "investigation" be released so we can see why these GM's were whacked?

Dunn and Friend were assholes who got what they deserved. But what about the rest?

Is this another Corporate knee-jerk to fool the public?

Sure would like to read that report.”

CBS had a chance to really clean up an ongoing problem, but they have apparently decided that offering up 4 heads was all they needed to look like they addressed the problems.

They could have and should have done better.