TV Team Rebounds After On-Air Resignation

The two former local TV news co-anchors whose on-air resignations shocked viewers last November have survived their daring move and the burst of international celebrity it created, they said in a joint interview at the Bangor Daily News on Saturday.

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Tony Consiglio is now writing for a new website, sportsjerks.net, a rare entry into the often frothy world of online sports journalism, he says, in that it is founded by two poets who care about quality writing.

Cindy Michaels has three jobs. The California native hosts shows for WFMX MIX 107.9 FM and WRMO WAVE-93.7 FM and sells vacation excursions through sharkdiver.com for Shark Diver, a San Diego company, she says.

“When we left the company, we knew we did not have anything to go to, and we knew it would be a challenge,” Michaels said. “You somehow make it. I told myself, ‘I am a survivor. I will get through this.’”

The two left their jobs at WVII (Channel 7) and sister station WFVX (Channel 22) on Nov. 20 in protest of what they said was years of interference from upper-level management in newsroom operations, which the stations’ manager denied. At the time, and now, they refused to describe the precise reasons they left.

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