A lawsuit by five women anchors at NY1 for age and gender discrimination alleged a wide pay gap between Mornings on 1 anchor Pat Kiernan and a similarly experienced female anchor. Photo-Illustration: Photo-illustration by Joe Darrow Pat Kiernan wanted the bagels. It was January 15, 2020 — National Bagel Day — and the crew of NY1’s morning show, Mornings on 1, had already pillaged the breakfast platter in the control room when word came down that it was being requested on set.
The allegations in the lawsuit were damning but not shocking. TV has always been a brutal business for women, particularly women over 40. It’s no coincidence that 75 percent of broadcast news is reported by men and that roughly two-thirds of prime-time-TV news shows feature male anchors and correspondents, per an analysis by the Women’s Media Center. But the real damage was in the details.
“NY1 had the reputation as the scrappy news start-up,” says Kiernan. “You knew what you were getting into.” Reporters worked long nights and holidays, delivering no-fuss news with local-access-style graphics. They hauled their own gear and were taught to shoot footage on what were then considered compact cameras but today would be about as modern as Zack Morris’s cell phone.
Hollywood writers and producers began casting NY1 anchors — often Kiernan, but Torre and other talent, too — in order to convey an authentic New Yorker–ness. The movie stuff was mostly accidental , but it raised profiles, mainly his. In 2011, he pissed off management when he told New York that he had thought of NY1 as “a stepping-stone.” He went on to play himself in The Avengers and Iron Man 3.
Paulus insists he never gave in to what he calls the “star system” he’d seen in his network days. “I told Pat, ‘You know, if you get hit by a bus tomorrow, they’re going to turn on NY1 to see what the time and temperature is, even if you’re not there,’ ” he says. But Paulus acknowledges that, eventually, Kiernan did outearn his fellow anchors — even those who had been there longer.
“In my sour-grapes mode, I’ll say he co-opted the business,” Paulus says of Bair’s approach. “He thought that the way to get to where he wanted to go and become a profit center for the company was ‘We’ll do live TV. We’ll make it the Today show of New York City.’ ” Paulus and Jacobson, the news director, soon found themselves iced out of discussions about programming. They were the old guard, the purists still clinging to the notion that they were public servants.
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