As if ABC News needed more drama.
Just as “GMA3” is officially washing its hands of co-anchors T.J. Holmes and Amy Robach’s salacious love affair, another scandal is rocking one of the network’s flagship local news broadcasts.
Ken Rosato, longtime anchor of “Eyewitness News This Morning” on New York’s WABC 7, has been given the boot after allegedly making an off-color remark, Page Six has exclusively learned.
Rosato was off the air when he uttered the phrase, we’re told, but an insider told us his remark was picked up “on an open mic”
Just as “GMA3” is officially washing its hands of co-anchors T.J. Holmes and Amy Robach’s salacious love affair, another scandal is rocking one of the network’s flagship local news broadcasts.
Ken Rosato, longtime anchor of “Eyewitness News This Morning” on New York’s WABC 7, has been given the boot after allegedly making an off-color remark, Page Six has exclusively learned.
Rosato was off the air when he uttered the phrase, we’re told, but an insider told us his remark was picked up “on an open mic”
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00:06 As if ABC News needed more drama.
00:08 Just as GMA3 is officially washing its hands of co-anchors TJ Holmes and Amy Robich's
00:13 salacious love affair, another scandal is rocking one of the network's flagship local
00:18 news broadcasts.
00:20 Ken Rosato, longtime anchor of Eyewitness News this morning on New York's WABC 7, has
00:25 been given the boot after allegedly making an off-color remark, Page Six has exclusively
00:30 learned.
00:31 Rosato was off the air when he uttered the phrase, "We're told," but an insider told
00:35 us his remark was picked up on an open mic and was immediately let go.
00:39 It's unclear what Rosato said or when exactly he made the comment.
00:44 Another source would only say he was fired for cause immediately.
00:47 Rosato's colleagues learned about the firing on Friday.
00:50 We're told his co-anchors were brought in one by one for a talk about it, but management
00:55 wouldn't tell them what he said.
00:57 Our insider also doesn't know what he uttered, but speculated that it could have been a racial
01:01 slur.
01:02 A rep for Rosato sharply denied that, telling us, "Being fired for any racial slur is 100%
01:08 inaccurate and untrue."
01:10 Ken Rosato had a benchmark of 20 years at WABC of supporting all equality.
01:16 On Friday, the station's general manager alerted staffers via email that Rosato is
01:20 no longer with WABC.
01:22 "We thank him for his years of service," they wrote.
01:26 Rosato joined Eyewitness News as a freelance reporter in 2003 and was promoted to morning
01:31 and noon anchor in 2007.
01:34 He anchored this morning with Shirlene Alliquitt, Heather O'Rourke, and Sam Champion.
01:39 A rep for ABC News did not get back to us.
01:42 The former anchor's bio has been wiped from the company's website.
01:46 His daily tweets from the anchor desk stopped on May 2.
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