TV & VIDEO - April 3, 1989

KHJ-TV Channel 9’s weatherman Andrew Amador has been fired after six years on the air. Amador said that the parting came “as a shock” but he described it as amicable and said he received a “nice severance.” Until Friday, Channel 9 had been the only local independent station to still use a weatherperson on its newscast, and news director Stephanie Rank Brady said that the station had decided to go without a weatherman for the time being. Channels 5, 11 and 13 currently have one of their anchors give the weather forecast. For now, Channel 9 will do the same.