Now that's an interesting perspective
Found this post:
Went to the L.A. Times Festival of Books....Oh, I didn’t know Christopher Nance, NBC 4 LA’s former weather dude, would be there too. I always enjoyed his morning weather reports until he left for greener pastures.
Two words: greener pastures?
A 2006 trial date is still being publicized for Nance's suit against NBC:
As you may know, I am suing NBC and Paula Madison for wrongful termination and discrimination. I have been given a court trial date of January 26th. 2006. My lawyers are the best but please keep me in your prayers for a positive outcome to this up coming trial.
Positivity. Yup:
Behind the false enthusiasm and exaggerated intimacy is a man widely seen as the volatile adolescent of the NB[C.sub.4] family His resentment, for instance, of Fritz Coleman, the station's beloved primetime weatherman, has been an open secret for years. "If it wasn't sexual harassment, it was I-hate-Fritz issues," a former colleague says. Nance let everyone know that he thought he should be the station's top weatherman, arguing that he was funnier, perkier, and harder-working than Coleman; the only explanation for his continued morning servitude, he would insist, was the color of his skin. "He refused to even fill in for Fritz," says another former NB[C.sub.4] employee. "Lots of people there have huge egos, but Christopher always seemed to make everything personal." When Nance shared the anchor desk with the long-running team of Kent Shocknek and Kathy Vara in the late '90s, the atmosphere on the Today in L.A. set was frequently so tense that some colleagues spoke, only half jokingly, about coming to work in a bulletproof vest. The clash was ugliest between Nance and Shocknek, a strong personality himself. During the weathercast Shocknek would sit with a watch--at the request of management--and calculate how much of Nance's airtime was spent promoting his school visits. Just to irritate Shocknek, Nance would use the commercial breaks to trumpet his latest publishing exploits. "God told me to go out and make a million dollars writing books for kids," he would announce. Vara, described by several people as the "marshmallow" of the group, usually tried to stay out of the way But once, Nance lit into her, too, unleashing a string of obscenities; by the end of the newscast, she was in tears. One source recalls the day Nance flew into a rage at the morning executive producer, Carol Morton, who had trimmed back his weathercast to allow time for a breaking story "You can go do the fucking weather yourself!" Nance yelled for everyone to hear. He was equally public when he called technical director Linda Sue Ortiz a "cunt." They were off the air, but the mikes were on. "Poor Linda Sue, she was mortified," says another source. "She thought he should have been fired on the spot."
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