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Monday, October 15, 2007
10/15: Road Warrior Brett Martin goes to CBS
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
“Good Day Atlanta’s” long-time “Road Warrior” Brett Martin, dismissed by WAGA-TV in late May, has found a new home across the dial at WGCL-TV helping out its fledgling “Better Mornings” program. The show, which airs from 5 to 7 a.m., provides the usual weather and traffic info but nixes hard news for soft features. “Good Day Atlanta,” whichs airs from 7 to 9, is more like “The Today Show,” blending soft and hard news along with traffic and weather.
Martin is the film critic and reporter for “Better Mornings” and his prepackaged reports will eventually show up on other WGCL news shows. He said he travels frequently to Los Angeles and New York for junkets. His first report was a one-on-one interview with Robert Duvall and Mark Wahlberg for “We Own the Night.”
Here’s Martin’s bio on the “Better Mornings” page, which conveniently avoids reference to WAGA.
Why Martin was cut from WAGA has never been publicly revealed but while he was there, he was a popular figure on that highly-rated morning show as energetic comic relief promoting local events and being the show’s resident “American Idol” expert.
“I have signed a legal agreement and I can’t discuss what happened,” he said. “I loved working over there, but I’ve moved on. There’s no hard feelings. It’s the nature of the business.”
After his dismissal, he said he received thousands of emails from a specific email he posted on the Fox 5 Web site, brettmartintv@yahoo.com. He’ll be happy to take some more.
