Channel 5 reports meteorologist Mark Johnson 'no longer employed' at the station

Longtime Cleveland meteorologist Mark Johnson is "no longer employed astatine WEWS," Channel 5 reported the day of May 9.

"News 5 wants to stock with our viewers a alteration to our on-air staffing," the presumption wrote successful a quality station connected its website. "Meteorologist Mark Johnson is nary longer employed astatine WEWS."

The little quality communicative did not see a crushed for the separation oregon the quality of it, but included a connection from WEWS Vice President and General Manager Steve Weinstein:

"We privation our audiences to cognize that News 5 and its genitor company, Scripps, instrumentality protecting our audiences' spot precise earnestly by requiring our employees to adhere to the highest ethical standards. We cannot supply further details, arsenic this is simply a unit matter."

The communicative said the station's "commitment to being the upwind squad Northeast Ohio turns to for information and accuracy remains steadfast."

The presumption volition instantly behaviour a hunt for Johnson's replacement.

Johnson joined Channel 5 successful November 1993, according to a leafage connected the station's website that has since been taken down.

"Mark is an award-winning meteorologist, having received coveted Emmy Awards for his upwind forecasting," the leafage read. "He was the archetypal Cleveland forecaster with some the American Meteorological Society (AMS) and the National Weather Association (NWA) Seals of Approval."

Johnson has yet to talk retired astir the separation. His lone societal media station connected May 9 was connected Facebook, wherever helium posted a representation of a lightning bolt down a tree. Dozens of radical commented connected the station to privation him well.

Contact newsman Jennifer Pignolet astatine [email protected], astatine 330-996-3216 oregon connected Twitter @JenPignolet.

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