UPDATE: More talent layoff news after the jump below.
Breaking news now confirmed by SFLTV.com: Major talent layoffs at WTVJ NBC6 today. Shocked tipsters are telling SFLTV.com that longtime anchor and South Florida icon/news legend Kelly Craig was laid off from the station early Monday afternoon. You heard right. The anchor that has been there since April of 1990 was laid off. Joining in this major round of lay-offs are weekday morning reporter Joe Carter, and Andrea Brody, the only female sports anchor at WTVJ. SFLTV is told that these layoffs were all most likely due to the economy.
Talent wasn’t the only cost-cutting item to go. SFLTV.com has confirmed that WTVJ has canceled the NBC6 weekend morning newscast.
We observed this “Tweet” by WTVJ executive producer Tammy Delgado, which seemed to originally confirm the suspicion of the layoffs:
“I hate today.. hate it.. hate it.. hate it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
Tammy would be the producer in charge of both Kelly Craig and Joe Carter. As of 3:30 PM on 6/29, their bios have been removed.
We contacted Ms. Craig and received this response:
“From the bottom of my heart, I thank South Florida for 19 years of support and viewership. I am truly blessed to have worked at a station where I was surrounded by dedicated professionals who I am honored to call my friends. I will dearly miss them all.”
SFLTV.com insiders are also telling our staff that several production employees were ALSO let go today from WTVJ. We’re told some layoffs include a floor manager, and possibly a steady camera operator.
Update: More production employees will soon be let go starting today 6/30. This is in addition to the two production staff already let go.
Update: According to tipsters, sports EP Jeff Tavvs was just let go. This will reportedly conclude the cuts on NBC6’s production side. Though, major layoffs at T51 are rumored tomorrow.
Update: Tisha Lewis along with 6 other behind the scenes staffers have also been handed pink slips today. Ardyth Diericks tells Broadcasting and Cable that the layoffs are related to the economy and that none of the people laid off so far have been permanent full-time employees but part timers.
Keep checking in for updates.
Last Update: 10:00PM 6/30
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138 Responses to First on SFLTV – Confirmed: Major Layoffs at WTVJ!
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White, white and white. Why not lay off one of the minority, unqualified people? Is this reverse racism?
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Layoffs doesn’t need an apostrophe.
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I believe Kelly deserves an apostrophe!
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Kelly and Andrea leaving are big mistakes.
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I never like Kelly..sorry she lost her job though
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I love Kelly she has a bubbly way about her. Andrea very pretty!
Joe Carter is very handsome! WTVJ should just shut down! Its hard to see a slow death! Which has gone onfor about 2 to 3 years!
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Hmmmm… not so sure why Tammy Delgado tweeted how much she hated today… she had a HUGE hand in what went down. Tammy, if you hated it so much, you wouldn’t have been running around this morning gossiping about it. Once again, you’ve demonstrated how to act in a way that is completely inappropriate and UN-managerial. Tweeting about it… really? Grow up already and look up the word compassion.
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All 3 are no longer listed on the NBC Miami website.
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a final nail in WTVJ coffin. Wow..
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The next thing to go is the building. NBC will probably relocate the station to the Telemundo site in Hialeah and sell the building. Then probably outsource the local news to another station. It doesn’t make sense to pay for all that overhead in Miramar. This is a classic GE move when looking to cut costs.
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I think you have it pegged! I believe they have been seizing for a hialeah move, those studios are massive. That’s the compromise they are going to make in keeping WTVJ. That would also explain why they dont want to change WTVJs set or anything
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Once again I say I am an unabashed fan of Kelly Craig. The people who made this choice (and Andrea Brody is just as egregious an error) are mouth-breathing morons. The 3 people who did such awe-inspiring work from that “bunker” at WTVJ Studios durin Andrew in 1992 are now all gone from WTVJ. Bryan Norcross, Tony Segreto and dear Kelly may have saved a lot of lives that night. But instead of building on that over the years, NBC squandered the goodwill built up that night. Idiots. So Nespral still has a job?
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WTVJ is dead; when Kelly Craig walked out the door, she kicked the final wind out of what was once that legendary station. RIP WTVJ 1949-2009. A true tragedy.
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This is sad. I wonder if they’ll mention this in their “news” or ignore it like they did with Conable. Who’s next? Bob Mayer, watch your back!
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Hope they are enjoying the ‘ change they can believe in ‘
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WTVJ was going down hill long before Obama was a senator, so dont even try to get that discussion started in this forum!
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ohhhh poor baby ……. last 8 years bush was blamed for everything why not blame obama ?
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wtf does obama have to do with the failure of WTVJ? It was the managements own fault.
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We were all ordered not to mention anything about the recent layoffs on air. Pretend it never happened says our news director – the great former secretary with no journalism experience, Cecelia Bradley.
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A once great station is officially dead.
Class and professionalism go while the annoying traffic girl continues to blab.
Bob Mayer….leave while you still can.
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Please leave Bob Mayer! You are what WTVJ was along with many others! Your a class act please don’t let them get you outta there. You need to cut them loose!
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With Kelly leaving does this mean the 11am show is in jeopardy of being cancelled?
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WTVJ has lost another viewer… The stay made a big mistake layingoff Kelly Craig. She’s a class act and they should have let go Roxanne Vargas instead and having Karen Curtis do the traffic. What a dumb mistake and cuz of that dumb mistake I’m not watching WTVJ no more!!!
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In response to Anonymous’s question— The 11am will be cancelled within 35-days. Fact. Executive Producer Tammy Delgado will be fired (laid off) within 60-days. Fact. Cecilia Bradley…demoted. Fact. And a new (short time) News Director will be re-introduced within 60-days. Fact— well, that one is still in the works. Also, a new bargain “buyer” will be announced in the coming months and yes, the entire shop is moving to Hialeah. NBC6 News will be dissolved, completely, by this time next year. Fact. Note to Bob Mayer… please get out asap— you are an elegant and iconic figure in South Florida and a journalistic legend — go out on your own terms and enjoy your retirement — South Florida adores you. Mark these words down SFLTV Fans — they are all spoken true and are intended as your “friendly” warning to plan accordingly.
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Uhhh… back up the facts or shut your mouth. Cool? Cool. And please, as much as I know you want to, don’t come back with some smart ass response. Tired of it, brother. Tired of it. Spew crap somewhere else. Fact. I love that. So original. Fact, King of Slop is a sad. Yeah, fact.
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I WILL BE BRIEF DOES IT REALLY SUPRISE YOU WITH WHAT TVJ HAS BECOME THIS STATION HAS BEEN GOING DOWN HILL SINCE THEY SCREWD OVER BOB WEAVERTHE PEOPLE THEY HAVE WORKING THERE NOW DONT HAVE A CLUE OF WHAT THAT STATION ONCE WAS ITS NOW BEING RUN BY A BUNCH OF BRAIN DEAD RETARDS IM SURE MORE FIRINGS ARE TO COME. I WILL POST LATER ON THE POSSIBLE COI GOING ON AT TVJ HEY ANY ONE NEED A KITCHEN
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Well, they have to do what they have to do. I find it interesting that only the O&O stations are having a rough time. WPLG, WSVN, and all the stations in West Palm Beach have had minimal layoffs.
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I work from home and catch the morning show and 11am show almost everyday. Kelly Craig is what makes that 11am show watchable!!! She is the only one on that show that makes me laugh from my office chair while I’m knee deep in emails. And the young guy, Joe Carter??? His tech stuff “Carter’s Clicks” in the morning is great! I really like him as an addition to Bob and Pam. Couldn’t agree more with the NBC 6 Fan, Roxanne is terrible!!!! She thinks that people at home want to hear her ramble about her coffee or the bandage on her elbow…just do the traffic!!! And do it well cause you don’t hold a candle to your former colleagues.
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I totally agree with you! Except for the part about Roxy, she keeps the morning show fresh. I like her, she brings good chemistry to the table.
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Another sad day for WTVJ. I echo the sentiments above. Bob Mayer has been there for 40 years and should follow in Segreto’s footsteps and go out on his terms. Sad, sad stuff happening in all forms of media in this region. Look at all the talent that has left the Sun-Sentinel and Miami Herald in addition to TV and radio in the past few years. I guess a lot of those people would have left, retired, etc., anyway, but layoffs are causing too many to leave too soon. Sad.
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king of slop, is this actually true about the bargain buyer and moving to hialeah?
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The only time I’m gonna watch WTVJ is when The Tonight Show, Late Night & SNL is on.
Other than that forget it, WTVJ is dead. WTVJ is gonna be like WWJ-TV in Detroit and KDNL in St. Louis where their news departments shut down because they failed to get ratings. WTVJ HAS ALREADY FAILED TO GET RATINGS HERE!. Here’s an idea: SHUT DOWN THE NEWS DEPARTMENT ALREADY (and maybe switch to another affiliation or something)
WTVJ is gonna move to Hialeah?
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Kelly Craig was the only reason to watch. She was hilarious!
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All true.
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wow! This is extremely sad news. What’s even more sad is that NONE of this information is told to the employees at the station…what’s gathered is through rumors. So what is really true? And what is happening next? I do know that a group of about 5 were taking a tour of the station today. Maybe that explains the rumored move to hialeah and the station being sold. Can someone please give more information, since nothing is coming from the “top”?
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I think they will compromise selling WTVJ by relocating it to Telemundo’s facility to save money and operate it out of there which i think is a rather smart idea.
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Yes, someone please give some true info….
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Drama Queens. lol
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Local news stinks! Tony Segreto gets the boot from WTVJ after 40+ years… then Joel Connable gets canned… now Kelly Craig is ousted, and kicked to the curb.
WTVJ has become a lost cause. I can’t seem to figure out what Jeff Zucker and Ben Silverman like about Ardyth Diercks, Tammy Delgado, and Jackie Nespral… not to mention, former ND Yvette Miley. They’ve been persistant in shooing off loyal WTVJ viewers.
I don’t know about the rest of you. I wonder who could and might be next in line at WTVJ to walk the plank?
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NBC totally sucks. Ben Silverman and Jeff Zucker are the reasons why. Both of them cancelled 1v100 despite that the show had good ratings. Somebody fire Silverman and Zucker immediately! I ORDER YOU TO DO SO!!!
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Zuck (rhymes with S…) is golden at GE. Once you get to that level, you’d have to practically steal from GE to get fired.
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If they had replaced Ardy and Yvette and some of the other awful managers, maybe these people would stil have jobs. Ratings were in the toilet becasue of the managers. I remember how Tammy Delgado would mke decisions about what to cover and put in the show and she had no clue and just screwed things up.
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Well WTVJ does it again, perhaps the person the needs to be let go is the one making these decisions – who at best is not in tune with the audience. Now there is less of a reason to Watch WTVJ, what for Jackie Nespral – good grief! Hopefully we will see Kelly at another local station very soon!
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You could make a great news crew out of just what 4 and 6 have let go. And Tisha Lewis still has a job?
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I sent Kelly Craig a link to a funny site, she always repiles. This time she didn’t, I found out why. Kelly was the most candid person on the station, even talking about her hot flashes. Maybe NBC6 can start doing their news from The Titanic, a fitting place for them.
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You can contact her on Facebook.
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I wonder if Tribune ought to affiliate WSFL with NBC?
San Diego… Tribune affiliated KSWB with FOX, and dropping The CW after 2 years. Resulting in XETV affiliating with The CW, and ending its 22-year run with FOX.
I could picture it now… WSFL affiliating with NBC, and dropping The CW after 3 years. WTVJ shuttering its news department, and endings its 21-year relationship with NBC, to affiliate with The CW (or MyNetwork TV), or become independant.
WSFL airing an in-house produced local newscast, starring favorite WTVJ and WFOR news talents. Just an idea.
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Eric, your a genius (not to be confused with Eric Foreman)
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I agree 87Year (rumored to be Tammy Delgado’s fiance)=== King of Slop is out of line and the FACT schtick is lame. How could he/she, unless they’re from H.R. Ahhh – perhaps a clue? Obviously, Tammy is in this way over her head — it’s NO secret that she is one of the worst EP’s to sleepwalk through her responsibilities at TVJ. Whatever! It’s not her fault that she doesn’t know how to lead and got that job — the people who hired her are the ones who should be held accountable. Tammy is an average person who shouldn’t be blamed for her bursts of ignorance === she doesn’t know better folks. And in her defense — who wouldn’t milk their 45k job for all it’s worth when they realized that they’re unqualified. King of Slop is right – her days are numbered – but please stop insulting the poor woman. She’s going through enough with that whole kitchen thing, the inappropriate emails about her weight, the job insecurity AND the unfair accuations about her relationships at work. Leave her alone!
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Kelly Craig is probably my favorite anchor in town. She can do breaking news with the best of them, remember Andrew and she is funny as hell. Miami TV news has been going down hill with lightening speed and we have just hit rock bottom.
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Chuck, I aggree with you on Tisha Lewis aka Lip Gloss . I hear Tisha is fighting for an anchor position big time. I wouldnt be suprised if she gets it. Afterall the 3 people who were let go were all white. Look who NBC6 is hiring, Latin and black only. Damn, save a few jobs for us white people !
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It’s a shame TVJ doesn’t want NBC to sell them. PostNewsweek was the original candidate for the sale. I could’ve considered Fox buy TVJ, but apparently SoFla viewers hate Fox.
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Does anyone know which interested buyers were at the station today? I think all of us here are in shocked by the news of Kelly. I saw her on friday on South Florida Today. It was scary to think your at work doing what you normally do enjoying your family, friends, and go to church during the weekend and you get to work on monday and management tells you “you’re laid-off.” Come on, out of the sorry a** reporters/anchor at the station you ousted kelly. Kelly was the main reason why I watch NBC 6 after Hurricane Andrew with Tony,Kelly, Brian they became my favorites. NBC made a f***-up mistake again. WHAT A DUMB-A**!!!
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NBC6 will move to Hialeah…FACT. The NBC6 building will become a Ñooo Que Barato store….this has not yet been confirmed.
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When is the move to Hialeah? When will management step up and inform their employees? I’m sure Ardy will have her pom-pom’s out, like the norm.
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Please advise that all comments are not confirmed as being official information.
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Alex, the move to Hialeah is not true?
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I didn’t say that. Just saying there’s no way to know it’s true.
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Late breaking news!!!!!! In order to save more money WTVJ will being moving into a closet at Telemundo Studios.
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Well….im guessing you havent been there, they do have quite a few large studios. If i remember correctly, to promote the fact that NBC purchased Telemundo, NBC had Jay Leno take the TOnight Show to one of those Telemundo studios in the late 1990s.
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I am in shock. I can’t beleive what NBC6 is doing. Kelly you are one of a kind and I am sure you will be fine. Don’t look back.
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I’ve lived in South Florida all my life, and our TV has always been tuned to WTVJ. As of today, we will no longer watch them. Congratulations, NBC 6, you managed to alienate some of the ONLY loyal viewers you had left!
Kelly – we’re really going to miss you.
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QBMiami87….I never said Telemondo had small studios. I said WTVJ is moving into a closet at Telemundo Studios”. Eyesight is a terrible thing to waste.
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I suppose….I just know that Telemundo’s facility may not look glamorous on the outside, but they have quite a 30 Rock type operation on the inside (but spanish style). Could be a good thing for WTVJ. NBC also has some executive and universal distribution offices in there as well so it would make sense.
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WTVJ continues to self distruct (better yet Ardy, Tammy and the rest of their “so-called” management team) has destroyed what was once Miami’s premier news station.
I have stayed away from watching WTVJ’s news shows ever since they terminated Joel Connable and the only reason to watch was to here Kelly as she delivered the news in the late mornings. She has been a class act and one of the few remaining legends at that station, but the stupidity of those two B*****s has really killed a great station.
I wish Kelly at the best and hope to have the pleasure of seeing her on another local TV station real soon.
So long to WTVJ!
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