{"id":2009621,"date":"2025-09-09T19:24:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T19:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2009621"},"modified":"2025-09-09T19:24:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T19:24:11","slug":"wish-tv-scrubs-these-names-off-its-meet-the-staff-page-after-21-employees-depart-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wish-tv-scrubs-these-names-off-its-meet-the-staff-page-after-21-employees-depart-station\/","title":{"rendered":"WISH-TV scrubs these names off its ‘Meet the Staff’ page after 21 employees depart station"},"content":{"rendered":"

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More than 20 employees<\/a> of Indianapolis’ WISH-TV<\/a> have departed or been let go by Circle City Broadcasting<\/a>, its parent company, in recent weeks.<\/p>\n

The departures include reporters, photographers, videographers, behind-the-scenes producers and familiar on-air personalities, such as anchor Jeremy Jenkins, who announced his exit from WISH on social media<\/a>\u00a0Aug. 29, 2025.<\/p>\n

Jenkins did not state his reason for leaving WISH-TV<\/a>. He departed days after the company told employees to sign new contracts<\/a> with an expanded non-compete clause by Sept. 2 that would bar them from working in nearly any form of media for a year after leaving the station.<\/p>\n

Story continues after photo gallery.<\/em><\/p>\n

How many people left WISH-TV after the contract deadline?<\/h2>\n

At least 11 staff who did not sign the contract by the deadline resigned or were terminated on Sept. 3. In the following days, another 10 left the station \u2014 some voluntarily, and some otherwise \u2014 bringing the total number of recently separated staff to at least 21.<\/p>\n

WISH-TV staff: Who’s gone?<\/h2>\n

IndyStar examined WISH-TV’s “Meet the Team” page<\/a> on its website using the Wayback Machine<\/a>, which archives billions of webpages across the internet. Between Aug. 24 and Sept. 9, the profiles of more than a dozen employees were scrubbed off the site.<\/p>\n

The WISH-TV employees listed below were either terminated or they resigned, left voluntarily after their contract expired, were not offered a new contract, or are otherwise missing from WISH-TV’s current staffing page. They include:<\/p>\n

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    Parker Carlson, digital journalist<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n

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    Kat Lowder, news producer<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n

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    Al Carl<\/a>, vice president of news at WISH<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    IndyStar public safety reporters Noe Padilla and Ryan Murphy contributed to this article.<\/em><\/p>\n

    John Tufts<\/a>\u00a0covers trending news for IndyStar and Midwest Connect. Send him a news tip at\u00a0JTufts@Gannett.com<\/a>. Find him on\u00a0BlueSky<\/a>\u00a0at\u00a0JohnWritesStuff<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

    This article originally appeared on Indianapolis Star: WISH-TV scrubs these names off its website after 21 employees depart<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

    \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

    \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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