KLFY Anchor and Investigative Reporter Chuck Huebne has been fired. 

Huebner’s departure was “a cumulative thing,” citing long-running tensions between the veteran newsman and management as well as between Huebner and fellow news staffers a source tells TheInd.

A savvy investigative reporter — “they never should have put him on the news desk [as an anchor],” one insider says, citing Huebner’s considerable skills as an investigative reporter who drew on well-cultivated sources — Huebner was said to be frustrated with the lack of experience among staffers in the news department and with the station’s general decline in ratings.

General Manager Kenny Lawrence declined comment citing company policy pertaining to personnel issues.