Former Fox News Employees Sue Network and TV Anchors, Alleging Harassment

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorA significant chunk of Fox Corp.’s employee base is likely to work from home for the rest of 2020 to keep the coronavirus from spreading among staffers, the company’s chief executive revealed in a memo.“In the near-term, we want to maintain a low density in our offices for those employees whose jobs do require them to be on site,” said Lachlan Murdoch, in the note.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorNick Khan, a behind-the-scenes power in the world of sports representation, is moving to professional-wrestling powerhouse WWE, where he will take on the role of president and chief revenue officer.Khan replaces George Barrios and Michelle Wilson, two longtime senior WWE executives who left Vince McMahon’s entrepreneurial professional-wrestling operation abruptly in a shake-up of management in January.More to come…

, «dozens of men and women» who worked on  claim that sexual harassment and misconduct «run rampant» at the office. ET has reached out to the show for comment.In the report, specific allegations are against Kevin Leman, an executive producer and the head writer on the show.

Working on The Ellen DeGeneres Show has been a well-respected opportunity in Hollywood for years, but it seems clear that those days are long over.

Lionsgate has nominated Mignon Clyburn, a former FCC commissioner, to its board of directors. Clyburn is president of MLC Strategies, a Washington, D.C.-based consulting firm.

Dave McNary Film ReporterLionsgate has nominated Mignon Clyburn, a former commissioner on the Federal Communications Commission, to its board of directors.Lionsgate made the disclosure Tuesday afternoon as part of its filing of its proxy statement to the Securities and Exchange Commission. If confirmed at the company’s annual meeting on Sept.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorFox Sports has laid off between 50 and 100 staffers, according to a person familiar with the matter, part of a bid to realign the Fox Corp. unit after it shed its regional-sports networks as part of the company’s massive asset sale to Walt Disney Co.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorIn his role as ABC News’ Chief White House Correspondent, Jonathan Karl has helped tell the story of the Trump administration’s oversight of the United States. Now he and the news outlet are gearing up to tell the story behind the story.ABC News will on Tuesday, July 28, at 9 p.m.

Former Fox Business producer Jennifer Eckhart and co-plaintiff Cathy Areu filed a lawsuit on Monday, alleging sexual misconduct against Fox News talent years after similar accusations led to the demise of the late CEO Roger Ailes. Eckhart has accused former White House correspondent and anchor Ed Henry of rape.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorBaseball advertising appears to have pivoted from a months-long slump to hitting above average.Fox Corp. has sold more than 90% of its ad inventory in its share of games in Major League Baseball’s pandemic-truncated 2020 season, according to Seth Winter, executive vice president of sports sales for the company, as well as all the ad berths in its planned broadcast of four games slated to air this Saturday on Fox Broadcasting and Fox Sports 1.

former Fox News correspondent Ed Henry of raping her while they both worked at the network. The lawsuit, which was filed Monday, claims Henry «performed sadistic acts on her without her consent that left her injured, bruised and battered with bloody wrists» after placing handcuffs on her.  A second plaintiff in the lawsuit, frequent Fox News guest Cathy Areu, also accused Fox News hosts Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity and Howard Kurtz of harassment.

Two women – including one former Fox News employee – are accusing some of the network’s most popular on-air anchors of sexual harassment. According to numerous reports, a new federal lawsuit that was filed on Monday accuses Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson, Howard Kurtz, Gianno Caldwell, and the recently-fired Ed Henry of sexual misconduct that ranges from inappropriate comments to rape.

accusing one host of rape and others of sexual assault, calling the network “rotten to the core.”Speaking to senior media correspondent Brian Stelter, the “New Day” anchor asked if she could amend a statement she made four years ago, during a different conversation on accused sexual misconduct at the company.“I remember four years ago, back in 2016, when you interviewed me about things that went on with Roger Ailes and you asked me then, ‘God, is Fox just rotten to the core?’ and I said

Journalist Jennifer Eckhart is not letting “fear of retaliation, victim shaming and further attacks” stop her from speaking out. This is what the former Fox Nation personality wrote on Twitter on July 20, the day she filed a lawsuit with co-plaintiff Cathy Areu (another journalist) against the Fox News Network and some of the biggest names to appear on the conservative news outlet: Ed Henry, Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson and Howard Kurtz.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorABC News executive Barbara Fedida will not return to the Disney-owned unit following an investigation into allegations of insensitive behavior and her treatment of employees, according to a person familiar with the matter,Staffers were notified of the matter Monday in a memo from Peter Rice, chairman of Walt Disney Television. “The investigation substantiated that Ms.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorCBS News has a link to TV broadcasting that hearkens to the days of Walter Cronkite and Douglas Edwards. But a new special set to debut Sunday evening was made available for streaming earlier this week.The hour-long effort, “Pandemia: Latinos in Crisis,” focuses on the Latinx community and the pressures placed upon it and other communities of color by the coronavirus pandemic.

according to the Daily Beast.In a report published Friday, the Daily Beast writes that more than a dozen staffers said they believe upper management has fostered a toxic environment that is evident in programming and within the company.The piece references a June 9 Zoom meeting — between Black staffers and Fox News Media CEO Suzanne Scott, President Jay Wallace, vice president of diversity and inclusion Marsheila J.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorRobert Irvine will add some new ingredients to Food Network as part of a new two-year deal with the Discovery-owned cable outlet.Irvine will lead new episodes of his series “Restaurant: Impossible” and develop mid- and short-form video segments for both linear and digital venues, including Food Network’s Kitchen app.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorMeghan McCain says one of the biggest lessons in her TV career came when she was working alongside Harris Faulkner in the run up to the 2016 election at Fox News Channel.A viewer had slipped into her direct messages on Twitter with an unpleasant remark, and McCain, who says she is prone to react to such things, learned a different strategy from Faulkner, with whom she appeared regularly on the  Fox News early-afternoon program “Outnumbered.”  The advice? “You’ve

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorCNN in March gave a handful of advertisers and ad-agency personnel a sneak peek of its ambitious six-part documentary series on late night, just days before New York City was shut down by the coronavirus pandemic. The project hasn’t been seen in public since.