Bruce Haring pmc-editorial-managerVeteran Los Angeles news anchor Jeff Michael sued KCBS-TV on Friday, alleging the station breached his contract and discriminated against him based on health issues.Michael was co-anchor of KCBS-TV Channel 2’s newscasts at 5, 6 and 11 p.m.
for more than three years. The Emmy Award-winning anchor joined KCBS in early 2017 after nearly two decades of working as an anchor at Fox’s KTTV Channel 11.
Before that, he was a crime reporter for KABC-TV Channel 7.Michael was part of a May purge by the station, a company-wide cutback after the ViacomCBS merger that saw him dismissed along with anchors Sandra Mitchell and Sharon Tay and meteorologist Garth Kemp.