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Pittsburgh-based Conservative radio host Wendy Bell was taken off the air Friday after comments she made about shooting protestors back in June resurfaced this week. “Entercom is the home to thousands of voices representing Americans of all races, ethnicities, gender identity, sexual orientation, beliefs and ability,” a statement from Entercom Pittsburgh Senior Vice President Michael Spacciapolli read. Entercom is the parent company of radio station KDKA which aired Bell’s show. “We take very seriously our responsibility to provide a platform for our communities to engage in diverse and meaningful dialogue, debate and the right to freedom of speech, we do...

18-year career marked with professional achievements and distinguished performance is over, just like that, because we can no longer say what we think. What a disgrace A Pittsburgh news anchor named Wendy Bell, a veteran of 18 years at WTAE-TV, is now unemployed. Not because she did a bad job as a news anchor. As far as anyone can see, she didn’t. In fact, it had nothing to do with anything she did on the job. You know where this is going, right? Bell held forth on her Facebook page about a recent local crime, and was quite unrestrained in...

WTAE-TV news anchor Wendy Bell has been fired after a recent public apology from the station regarding a post on her Facebook page. A statement made today from Hearst Television, the station's parent company, reads "WTAE has ended its relationship with anchor Wendy Bell. Wendy's recent comments on a WTAE Facebook page were inconsistent with the company's ethics and journalistic standards."

WTAE-TV’s Wendy Bell takes down controversial Facebook post, apologizes Following an escalating firestorm Wednesday over Facebook postings by WTAE-TV anchor Wendy Bell on what critics described as “racist” views following the mass shooting in Wilkinsburg on March 9, she has removed the posts and apologized. “I have removed a post that I initially placed here on Monday,” she wrote late Wednesday on her official WTAE Wendy Bell Facebook page. “I sincerely apologize for that post about the Wilkinsburg mass shooting and the restaurant employee whom my husband and I encountered. I now understand that some of the words I chose...