July 13, 2020
CBS' Texas unit has agreed to pay $215,000 to settle allegations from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission that its Dallas-Fort Worth station discriminated against a 48-year-old traffic reporter when it hired a younger, less-experienced reporter for its morning broadcast.
April 20, 2020
A CBS affiliate failed to prove negative audience feedback motivated its decision to pass over a seasoned contributor and offer the job to less-qualified, younger candidates for on-air positions, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission told a Texas federal court.
March 30, 2020
An "unusual and alarming" amount of negative feedback from viewers, and not age, was grounds for a CBS affiliate's decision not to promote a fill-in reporter to on-air traffic reporter, the station has told a Texas federal judge.