Long-time TV broadcaster Ann Rohmer is saying so long to local station CP24.
After 31 years in the biz – 25 of them at Citytv – Rohmer’s revealed that she’s leaving the airwaves mid-June. It sounds suspiciously like what went down in February, when Rogers subsiduary Citytv axed many of its high-profile on-air journalists.
“I’m very lucky,” says Rohmer in a statement issued by CTV GlobeMedia, the Canadian media conglomerate that bought the pseudo-news channel from its idiosyncratic founder Moses Znaimer in 1997 CHUM Limited in 2007. “I have had so much fun working in television for the last three decades and I have decided now it’s time to do something new.”
Translation: It’s not fun anymore and I’m out of here. Anybody hiring?
“We are sorry to see her go, but she will always remain part of our family here at CP24,” says Bob McLaughlin vice-president and general manager of CP24 in a prepared statement issued late this afternoon. “Ann is irreplaceable.”
Translation: Don’t bother sending in your resumes, there’s no job here.
The beleagured no-budget cable channel seems to have sadly turned into a graveyard for former City/MuchMusic/A Channel VJs and videographers working out the last days of their contracts until the inevitable robots take over. Steve Anthony in a traffic helicopter, anyone?
But Rohmer should be bound for better things. Just look how her similarly dumped Citytv colleague Anne Mroczkowski has bounced back into the big time, having just been named the co-anchor of Global TV’s 6 o’clock news starting June 1.
Our advice to Rohmer: Go somewhere your talent is appreciated.[rssbreak]
