Radio Stalking Case

From this morning's Tom Taylor NOW column...

Chicago radio executive Melody Spann-Cooper hopes a stalking case is finally over. A year ago, the head of WVON/1690 was granted an emergency no-contact order against a former ad-seller who believed she’d been shorted on commissions. But then Spann-Cooper went back to court seeking a more permanent order, after she and her husband were the targets of “threatening correspondence, false and profane social media postings, and trespassing.” Now Robert Feder reports that Spann-Cooper got the stalking no-contact order. Former ad executive Deanna Burrell believed she was due additional sales commissions, after she resigned as a contract seller in 2015. The EEOC ruled against her. A statement from African-American-targeted talker WVON – owned by iHeart, operated by Midway Broadcasting – quotes Midway Chair Spann-Cooper saying “History has shown that you cannot take threats and intimidation lightly, especially in the workplace.”

And I thought *I* worked in some high-drama radio stations.