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Media: HOI anchor gets out alive (Was: Did WHOI lower the boom today?)

WHOINews anchor Tim McGinnis made the following remark on his Twitter page:

That’s it, my last WHOI newscast, maybe my last 10p.m. ever.

Oh, boy. I didn’t watch WHOI today. Does anyone know what was said?

UPDATE: Good news for Tim, from his Twitter page:

@PeoriaPundit I am moving to myrtle beach,sc. To be the anchor at WPDE. The boom was not lowered.

Congrats to Tim.

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5 Responses to “Media: HOI anchor gets out alive (Was: Did WHOI lower the boom today?)”

  1.   Dr. Thompson Says:
    February 6th, 2009 at 10:46 pm

    i caught bits…think timmy left the station to pursue other opportunities…which could be true or maybe he just saw the writing on the wall…time will tell…

  2.   diane Says:
    February 7th, 2009 at 6:41 am

    MYRTLE BEACH!!?? Tim, don’t forget what close good friends we have become. We’ll be visiting you soon!

  3.   Ryan Johnson Says:
    February 7th, 2009 at 1:27 pm

    Myrtle Beach is also a Barrington Station. They didn’t renew the contract of their longtime anchor because he made too much money, so they basically moved Tim there.

  4.   Ryan Johnson Says:
    February 7th, 2009 at 1:38 pm

    http://thesunnews.typepad.com/opinionblog/2009/01/ousted-wpdetv-anchor-says-farewell.html

    http://openline.medialine.com/showthread.php?t=29499

  5.   SomeGuy Says:
    February 8th, 2009 at 11:15 am

    WHOI basically has not management at the moment.