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Via Minneapolis Star Tribune
Meier felt KSTP-TV’s ax; now, he gets its hook
By C.J
Now, Randy Meier has been literally, as well as figuratively, kicked off KSTP-TV’s air.
The former KSTP-TV anchor was invited to guest-host on FM107’s afternoon drive-time show for two days last week. On weekdays, “5 Eyewitness News” sends a camera to the radio station for frothy cut-ins that air live on TV.
On Wednesday, after clearance seemed to have been given for Meier to be back on KSTP-TV’s air for the first time since 2003, he got rudely pushed off camera at the last minute by show sidekick Julia Cobbs, who did not return calls.
“It was just weird,” Meier told me Thursday. “My biggest astonishment was, ‘Where’d this come from?’ Clearly there were some people who were fine with it and at the last minute somebody wasn’t fine with it. For all parties involved it would have been nice if everybody had been on the same page.
“It was very difficult for the radio people to have to deal with that. It was disRESPECTful to get stiff-armed off camera. That’s never happened to me in 25 years. I don’t blame FM107 one bit. They did exactly what they had to do. … I felt bad for the people around me because it put them in a very difficult situation. They couldn’t apologize enough and wanted to make sure I was going to come back the next day.”
Yeah, it seems somebody wanted him to return Thursday for just a tad more insult to go with Wednesday’s injury.
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