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Former NY1 anchors allege retaliation by Stamford-based Charter Communications
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Charter Communications, whose holdings include the Spectrum NY1 cable news channel, is headquartered at 400 Atlantic St. in downtown Stamford, Conn.Michael Cummo / Hearst Connecticut Media
STAMFORD The five female journalists who settled in December an age-and-gender discrimination lawsuit involving Charter Communications’ Spectrum News NY1 cable news channel are alleging that the company is retaliating against them in response to the litigation.
A complaint filed Monday with the New York City Commission on Human Rights outlined the allegations, which include the assertion that Stamford-based Charter has refused to submit the five former NY1 anchors’ entries for this year’s Emmy Awards despite having previously agreed to do so.
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.
ViacomCBS is confronting a widening crisis over allegations of mistreatment in its TV stations group.
In the wake of a Los Angeles Times investigation, which detailed allegations of racism and misogyny at CBS’ Philadelphia TV station, current and former employees of CBS’ flagship station, WCBS-TV Channel 2 in New York, have alleged that they also worked in a “hostile environment” where Black, Latino, Asian and gay employees were treated poorly, and stories that occurred in Black and Latino neighborhoods were at times overlooked.
For the record:
4:18 PM, Feb. 03, 2021An earlier version of this story incorrectly described how CBS handled a story on a 2013 shooting in Irvington, N. J. WCBS aired portions of an interview with the victim’s family in at least two of its newscasts.