From today's Strib...
Lizz Winstead sues Air America radio network
May 25, 2005 WINSTEAD0525
Comedian-turned-radio-host Lizz Winstead filed a lawsuit in New York this week against her former employer, the liberal radio network Air America.
Winstead, a Minnesota native who was one of the first hires made by the network, claims she is owed $200,000 for on-air work, $14,423 in unused vacation time and $83,333 in severance pay. She was fired in March as co-host of Air America's show "Unfiltered," which has since been replaced by "The Jerry Springer Show."
"It's the sad old story of someone devoting 16-hour days to build an exciting, new venture -- and she's out the door without ... what she's promised," her attorney, Edward Hernstadt, told the New York-based newspaper Newsday.
Air America told the paper it wouldn't comment on pending litigation.
Deborah Caulfield Rybak
$200 g's? Not bad. Problem is you actually have to collect it, which doesn't sound like it's very easy. I'd hate to have to say that they are replacing me with a Jerry Springer re-run. Ouch.
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