{"id":2300112,"date":"2026-02-25T22:07:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T22:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2300112"},"modified":"2026-02-25T22:07:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T22:07:11","slug":"ktlas-mark-kriski-among-layoffs-as-nexstar-eliminates-jobs-at-stations-across-the-country-sag-aftra-decries-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/ktlas-mark-kriski-among-layoffs-as-nexstar-eliminates-jobs-at-stations-across-the-country-sag-aftra-decries-cuts\/","title":{"rendered":"Ktla\u2019s Mark Kriski Among Layoffs As Nexstar Eliminates Jobs at Stations Across the Country; SAG-AFTRA Decries Cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">Longtime <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0007077\/\">Ktla<\/a> weather anchor <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0471505\/\">Mark Kriski<\/a>, an eight-time Emmy winner who has been an <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0132299\/\">L.A. TV<\/a> fixture since he joined \u201cKtla <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt17521284\/\">Morning<\/a> News\u201d at its launch in 1991, has been let go by the station. Kriski\u2019s exit is a part of nationwide staff cuts by <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0982204\/\">Nexstar<\/a>, including major layoffs at flagship stations <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0000647\/\">Wpix<\/a> New York, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0017401\/\">WGN<\/a> Chicago and Ktla Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>Also let go at Ktla were midday anchors <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0907765\/\">Glen Walker<\/a>, who had been at Ktla since 2010, and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1951721\/\">Lu Parker<\/a>, who had been with Ktla since 2015. At WGN, the Chicago Tribune reported eight layoffs, including <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm7676509\/\">Dean Richards<\/a>, who had been&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Longtime Ktla weather anchor Mark Kriski, an eight-time Emmy winner who has been an L.A. TV fixture since he joined \u201cKtla Morning News\u201d at its launch in 1991, has been let go by the station. Kriski\u2019s exit is a part of nationwide staff cuts by Nexstar, including major layoffs at flagship stations Wpix New York, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2300113,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2300112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Ktlas-Mark-Kriski-Among-Layoffs-As-Nexstar-Eliminates-Jobs-at.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2300112"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2300114,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300112\/revisions\/2300114"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2300113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2300112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2300112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2300112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}