The ex-NY1 employees, barely six weeks after settling a bitter discrimination lawsuit with their employer, charged the company Tuesday with punitively refusing to submit their on-air work for this year’s Emmy consideration.
Five female reporters at NY1 and Charter Communications Inc. reached a settlement on age and sex discrimination claims alleging that the broadcaster cut them out of significant on-air opportunities, according to a filing in New York federal court Monday.
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Even as broadcast network shows return to the air this month, production on programs at most of the major studios in Los Angeles did not resume as scheduled this week due to rising covid-19 cases.
Many series were pushed back to a Jan. 11 production restart and others, including NBC’s partially Pittsburgh-set “This is Us,” delayed production until Jan. 18. The “Grammy Awards” telecast, slated for Jan. 31, was postponed until March 14 and L.A.-based late-night shows starring Jimmy Kimmel and James Corden left their studios again and resumed taping from the hosts’ homes.
Five female anchors will no longer work at a New York news channel as part of the settlement of an age and gender discrimination lawsuit alleging they were.