Kat Lowder, a former Wish-TV news producer, has just finished his night shift in 2025. On 4 September, when the company’s human resources informed it that her contract had been terminated the day before.
Lowder was one of more than 20 employees released from the Circle City Broadcasting, Wish-TV patronizing companies last week after the company terminated people who did not sign a new contract with an expanded non-compete condition. Some additional employees had been released without receiving a new contract offer.
She and a handful of other employees believed that from the “Blood Baths” it was not spared from the day. However, their destinies were delayed only: they were provided with the termination documents, spending eight hours by preparing a morning news show.
“We all got the impression that it was not required to sign,” Lowder said. “We thought the shootings were just rumors, so we weren’t sure. It was until all the shootings happened the day before.”
The date of termination of Lowder documents, September 3, was the same as others who did not sign the attachment.
Unlike others, Lowder had the ability to clean his table before leaving.
Several attempts to achieve Circle City Broadcasting and the owner of the company Dujuan McCoy were unsuccessful at the time of publication.
“I feel we have broken wrong”
August 25 Wish-TV employees were asked to sign changed versions of their employment contracts that would prevent them from working for a year in any media form after leaving the station.
Unlike the previous version, which forbade the year for a year, the new contract has also banned broadcasts, social media or any other “entertainment, sports or related programming” created by the public, leaving Wish.
Employees were granted until September 2.
Photographer Guillermo Lithgow was confused when he received an annex to the contract. Although non -stages are common for industrial talent air, they are not typical of photographers or others working behind the scenes.
“It’s very understandable for talent, but not photographers. We’re behind the camera,” said Lithgow. “If we go to another station, we will not bring any viewers or people with us.”
According to interviews with several former station staff, at least 11 employees who have not yet signed a contract before the deadline or have been terminated on 3 September. Other days, 10 were left to the station – some of them voluntarily, and some otherwise, a total of at least 21, the former employees said.
More than 10 former employees talked to Indystar with an anonymity condition because he was afraid to harm his work prospects.
Several interviewed employees “Indystar” said they believe that the introduction of new conditions came from Ashley Brown Elliott.
Brown, a chief meteorologist at Wish for more than six years, previously announced this year that she had been dismissed after interviewing the television station behavior with black women’s staff. McCoy, owner of the company, called Brown’s claims “completely false and slanderous.”
In July Brown filed a lawsuit for the Circle City broadcast to break the non -compete condition, which prevented her from finding another job in the Indianapolis news market.
September 4th The Marion County Judge blocked the performance of the Brown non -compete agreement. The bill, which Brown challenged – and the judge found that unrealized – was less restrictive, as who was asked to sign the employees on 25 August.
Revelation that Brown’s contract was not implemented, some former employees felt conflicting about their termination.
Lowder signed his contract with Wish for another two years.
“I feel illegally terminated,” Lowder said. “So much of us is not working now.”
Although Lowder devastated, Lowder said she was lucky enough to have a double -income household, and a few former collaborators try to find a job to pay their bills.
“We only had four business days to decide if we wanted to sign a contract,” Lowder said. “It wasn’t enough time to make such a huge decision.”
The vice president of the building escorted from the building
According to the four people who talked to Indystar, Al Carl, the News at Wish Vice President Wish, was visible by cleaning his desk on September 7.
E -mail In a letter to Rick Gevers, a television talent agent in Indianapolis, Carl wrote that he was told that his role had been reduced.
“I am extremely proud of the work we have done to Wish in almost ten years … Wish-TV was a wonderful experience,” Carl wrote.
At the time of publication, several attempts to achieve Carl were unsuccessful.
Noe Padilla is an Indistar public security reporter. Contact him by email. By email [email protected], follow it x @1noepadilla or via Bluesky @noepadilla.bsky.social.
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This article initially appeared in Indianapolis Star: more than 20 employees including vice president, now Wish