KCBS lays off anchors Jeff Michael and Sharon Tay, and weatherman Garth Kemp

[Zorro]

Prominent anchors Jeff Michael and Sharon Tay, along with meteorologist Garth Kemp, were cut from CBS TV stations in Los Angeles late Wednesday amid sweeping corporate layoffs.

Michael has been co-anchor of KCBS-TV Channel 2’s premier newscasts at 5 p.m., 6 p.m. and 11 p.m. for more than three years.

The Emmy Award-winning anchor joined KCBS in early 2017 after working as an anchor at rival Fox’s KTTV-Channel 11 for nearly two decades.

Michael became known to L.A. TV viewers in the early 1990s as a crime reporter for KABC-TV Channel 7. He provided live coverage of the Los Angeles riots in 1992, the infamous slow-speed chase of O.J. Simpson’s white Bronco and dispatches from Simpson’s criminal trial, among other major stories.

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2020-05-27/kcbs-anchors-jeff-michael-garth-kemp-sharon-tay-layoffs

Times are getting harder all over.

[quaint]

1. That sucks.

[SoCalNative]

2. I remember Jeff from his KABC days

and Sharon from KTLA.

Very sad, but I suspect this is all part of the great ViacomCBS purge that happened yesterday.

[dhill926]

3. always enjoyed Sharon Tay....

she had a subversive sense of humor...

[TeamPooka]

4. Garth is an institution.