The two veteran NY personalities were both fired for alleged "inappropriate comments and bullying" over the course of several years--Leonard Lopate called the decision "unjust" and Jonathan Schwartz said when the two were initially suspended that this was "the most hurtful, outrageous and saddest [incident] I’ve ever experienced [in my life] — and more"--Lopate's midday show has been renamed "Middays on WNYC" (why not the original "New York & Co." title?) with rotating guest hosts, while Paul Cavolconte of sister station WQXR will take over Schwartz's weekend shifts and run the 24/7 stream of standards, which has already been rebranded "WQXR's American Standards," which will piss off the 75-year-old classical music hardcores who do not consider Cole Porter and Gershwin worthy--if, of course, they're online to begin with)--the below link includes the report heard by "All Things Considered" listeners in NY last night:
https://www.wnyc.org/story/new-york-public-radio-fires-hosts-lopate-schwartz Considering the ages of both Lopate and Schwartz, it's safe to say that their careers are pretty much dead, although Lopate may try podcasting and Schwartz may come crawling back to SiriusXM, where he lost his job as DJ and programmer of their "Siriusly Sinatra" standards channel after a dust-up with the Sinatra family, who licenses the use of Francis Albert's name and requires programming to be at least half the Chairman's records. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
