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routine criticism bit.Bassett, the Jackson-based network’s first chief meteorologist, was let go from her desk after uttering a racial epithet — “fo shizzle, my nizzle” — on air while reporting on rapper Snoop Dogg’s latest addition to his Cali wine line.Following the on-screen gaffe, which quickly went viral on social media, Bassett was removed from the station’s team page online and has been absent from broadcasts since March 8.Goldberg, 67, said it’s “hard to keep up” with the seemingly ever-changing social rules of what people can and can’t say — especially “if you’re a person of a certain age.”“There has to be a book of stuff that nobody could ever say, ever, ever, ever. Include everything,” Goldberg said.

“It’s the issues that New Yorkers are talking about. What it is that you need to know to be an informed New Yorker,” Pergament said of the show, available to Spectrum subscribers on Channel 1, Spectrum News App Xumo, Stream Box, Roku, and Apple TV streaming. Pergament started her career at NY1 in 1994.

made an accidental on-air gaffe Friday when she revealed that her family was planning a surprise birthday party for her niece.The blunder occurred when weather forecaster Kawser Quamer was asked by host Annabel Tiffin at the end of the broadcast if she had any plans lined up for the weekend. “What have you got for the weekend, anything exciting,” Tiffin, 55, asked at the end of the program which broadcasts to the UK’s Northwest region. “My niece’s surprise birthday party,” Quamer, 44, responds immediately without thinking.

CBS News announced Osgood’s passing Tuesday. The former journalist died at his New Jersey home from dementia, kin said.“Charlie absolutely loved being part of the ‘Sunday Morning’ community,” his family said in a statement to the outlet.“We’ll miss him terribly, but there is comfort in knowing his life was charmed, in large part thanks to you.

daytime talk show. While bantering about threesomes and dating, Shepherd said, “I threw in Anderson’s name because you guys get along so well together.”Cohen then interrupted, joking, “We could have some good threesomes, me and Anderson.” He continued, giving some more insight into his longtime friendship with the 55-year-old journalist.

a popular Snoop Dogg phrase on air earlier this month.Barbie Bassett has not returned to the anchor desk at NBC affiliate WLBT since the March 8 broadcast and is no longer listed as a member of the news team on the station’s website, the Clarion Ledger reports.The Post reached out to Bassett, WLBT and Snoop Dogg for comment.“As I am sure you can understand, WLBT is unable to comment on personnel matters,” Ted Fortenberry, the station’s regional vice president and general manager, told The Post in an emailed statement Saturday.The gaffe was made during a discussion about Snoop Dogg’s latest addition to his Cali wine line.Bassett said, “Fo shizzle, my nizzle,” when the idea of a Snoop collaboration with a newsroom journalist was raised.“Nizzle” is slang for the N-word. Bassett, who is white, also tweeted the phrase in 2011.This is not the first time Bassett, who boasts being the first chief meteorologist in WLBT’s history, has landed in hot water for her comments.The Mississippi native apologized in October 2022 after referencing a black reporter’s “grandmammy” on air.“Though not intentional, I now understand how my comment was both insensitive and hurtful.

Lori Stokes’ retirement means that, for the first time in more than 20 years, viewers in the tri-state area will arise Monday morning without seeing her familiar face on their TV screens.Stokes has officially ended her New York City broadcasting career, which started at WABC/Ch. 7 in 2000 and ended Friday with her final broadcast on WNYW/Ch. 5 which she joined in 2017 — co-anchoring“Good Day New York” with Rosanna Scotto; starting in June 2021, she anchored the station’s 5, 6 and 10 p.m.

Roku.The series, set in 1986 Australia, stars Anna Torv (“Fringe,” “Mindhunter”) as Helen Norville, the tempestuous co-anchor of the “News at Six” in Melbourne alongside her aging, jealous colleague, Geoff Walters (Robert Taylor), who’s turning 60 and clings to his days as a Vietnam War correspondent to assert his relevance. He knows (but won’t admit it) that viewers are tuning in to the newscast for Helen; their on-camera smiles disguise the icy off-camera friction between.The “News at Six” team also includes young, fresh-faced producer/reporter Dale Jennings (Sam Reid), who’s hoping for his big break as a newsreader and snaring that all-important morning “update” segment — but muffs it, big-time, when he fills in for Helen after she storms out of the station following a loud fight with her boss, news chief Lindsay Cunningham (William McInnes) — after he calls her “a war zone on two legs” and says she has “a face like a slapped a–.” He knows that Helen is the network news division’s bread-and-butter and he tells her as much … in his own un-PC way.

His wife, Ruth Shaheen Downs, died in 2017 at the age of 95. They were married for 63 years.Downs is survived by his daughter, Deirdre; his son, Hugh R.