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News Anchor Fired After Going Off-Script to Deliver ‘Reckless’ Monologue About Ex-Colleague

by Lorri Wickenhauser


A Los Angeles news personality was fired Thursday after an on-air monologue criticizing his station over the exit of a co-anchor.

Mark Mester of KTLA-TV had been suspended by the station after a Saturday broadcast in which he went off-script to complain about the management’s treatment of Lynette Romero. Romero left abruptly last week after being with the station for nearly 24 years, the Los Angeles Times reported.

“Last week, KTLA announced that Romero, a longtime anchor of its popular weekend morning show, had left the station without saying goodbye to viewers, drawing wide outrage and criticism,” the Times reported…


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