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August 30[edit]

KCAL 9 News Anchor Disappears?[edit]

Where is Sara Donchey former evening news anchor on KCAL 9 in Los Angeles. She has been gone for months without any explanation from the stationWial5kpr (talk) 20:34, 30 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Apparently it's Sara Donchey. Have you reviewed Google for clues? If there's nothing there, you could try contacting the station and see if she still works there. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 20:44, 30 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Unless it's the retirement of an iconic newsreader of 40 years standing, for example, it's not the done thing anymore to explain changes in staff or scheduling. Sometimes they advertise a program, then for whatever reason change their minds, and they just broadcast the new one as if the original one had never existed. No information is given about when, or whether, the originally scheduled show will ever appear. Further examples of TV cynicism include:

series that flop are pulled quickly in order not to prolong the agony, and the final episode broadcast is called the "series final", whether or not it was ever meant to be the last
once, it was assumed that an episode of a series would be a new one, unless marked as "repeat". Now, a repeat is assumed unless it's marked "new". That way, they get to promote the new episode as something really special when once its newness would have been taken for granted, while getting away with showing repeats without admitting anything, and giving viewers the experience of expecting to see a new episode but watching for a while and only then realising they'd seen it before, but now it's too late to watch something else because you've missed the start. Sneaky, dishonest, and vomit-inducing behaviour. -- Jack of Oz ^{[pleasantries]} 22:26, 30 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think this is something appropriate to discuss on the RD or anywhere on Wikipedia but for the person the question is about it seems likely more complicated than station making a change and not bothering to explain. Nil Einne (talk) 06:22, 31 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

In Google they list her various social media accounts, which appear to have been inactive since the spring. When someone goes "off the grid", there can be any number of reasons. Without any definitive information, trying to guess what is going on wanders into BLP territory, as you suggest. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 06:58, 31 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I read that some news channels had to lay off presenters, due to changes, as consequence of the Covid-19 crisis..other presenters got married, left the station..some possibly left, due to illness Gfigs (talk) 07:41, 31 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I think the important thing to note here is that people leave jobs all the time, and there are also privacy concerns and policies that mean that the human resources departments at their employers may be not-at-liberty to discuss employment matters. There are any number of reasons why a person might leave a job, from having children, to moving, to finding a better job somewhere else, to having to follow a spouse to a new job, to having to leave to care for a sick family member, to personal illness, to being laid off or fired/sacked for various reasons. The employer is under no obligation to tell anyone why a person left, and in some cases may actually be prevented from giving details. --Jayron 32 16:29, 31 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]