Storied New Haven TV station WTNH (News 8), which said goodbye to news director Kirk Varner and weekend meteorologist Matt Scott in recent weeks, waved off longtime meteorologist Geoff Fox on Wednesday, informing him there would be no new contract when his current one expires at the end of February, Fox confirmed.
“I’m disappointed,” said Fox in a phone interview Wednesday afternoon. “I’m a little shell-shocked right now.”
The Brooklyn, N.Y.,-born Fox has been delivering the weather on WTNH’s main news shows since 1984, with mostly unchanging looks, jocularity with his other anchors and his familiar two-step move toward the camera to make a point or a quick aside.
WTNH General Manager Mark Higgins said he had nothing to announce Wednesday afternoon about a change in weather personnel. Fox said he went in to talk about a new contract and found out the LIN TV-owned station was not going to offer him one.
He then left for home and Gil Simmons was called in for the 5 and 6 p.m. shows; Fox said he was heading back to do the 10 and 11 p.m. shows Wednesday and planned to finish out his contract on-air at WTNH.
Fox spoke Wednesday afternoon from his home in Hamden, which he shares with his wife, Helaine. The couple has a 23-year-old daughter working for a production company in Hollywood.
Fox said he won’t say anything bad about WTNH, where he has been a key player in the profitable news department for 26 years.
“I have a wife, a child. I have earned an exceptionally good living at Channel 8, and I have been a wise person in how I use (invest) that,” he said, “so I’m not worried about the sheriff coming in and taking my house.”
Fox would not give his age, but called himself a “young man” who wants to stay in the business.
“What happened today notwithstanding, this has been a phenomenal job, a dream job,” he said. “...Are the people of Connecticut nice? Are they good to me? Holy (crap)! It’s a good thing being Geoff Fox in Connecticut. And I’ve tried my best to repay that back to them, even with the apology I made last year.”
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“I’m disappointed,” said Fox in a phone interview Wednesday afternoon. “I’m a little shell-shocked right now.”
The Brooklyn, N.Y.,-born Fox has been delivering the weather on WTNH’s main news shows since 1984, with mostly unchanging looks, jocularity with his other anchors and his familiar two-step move toward the camera to make a point or a quick aside.
WTNH General Manager Mark Higgins said he had nothing to announce Wednesday afternoon about a change in weather personnel. Fox said he went in to talk about a new contract and found out the LIN TV-owned station was not going to offer him one.
He then left for home and Gil Simmons was called in for the 5 and 6 p.m. shows; Fox said he was heading back to do the 10 and 11 p.m. shows Wednesday and planned to finish out his contract on-air at WTNH.
Fox spoke Wednesday afternoon from his home in Hamden, which he shares with his wife, Helaine. The couple has a 23-year-old daughter working for a production company in Hollywood.
Fox said he won’t say anything bad about WTNH, where he has been a key player in the profitable news department for 26 years.
“I have a wife, a child. I have earned an exceptionally good living at Channel 8, and I have been a wise person in how I use (invest) that,” he said, “so I’m not worried about the sheriff coming in and taking my house.”
Fox would not give his age, but called himself a “young man” who wants to stay in the business.
“What happened today notwithstanding, this has been a phenomenal job, a dream job,” he said. “...Are the people of Connecticut nice? Are they good to me? Holy (crap)! It’s a good thing being Geoff Fox in Connecticut. And I’ve tried my best to repay that back to them, even with the apology I made last year.”
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