After Circle City Broadcasting's request to keep a former WISH-TV meteorologist's lawsuit out of court was denied, a judge found that the non-compete clause at the center of the case was unenforceable.
In July, Ashley Brown Elliott sued Circle City Broadcasting, WISH-TV's parent company, to break a clause in her employment contract that prohibited her from finding another job in the Indianapolis news market for a year after leaving the station.
Her six years as the station's chief meteorologist ended in February, months before the suit's filing. Brown announced at that time that she was fired after questioning the station's treatment of Black women employees, while the company's owner, DuJuan McCoy, called that characterization "utterly false and defamatory." Brown chose to leave the station, McCoy said in February.
It's standard for on-air talent in the broadcasting industry to sign contracts agreeing not to work for a competing station for a specific amount of time after leaving their jobs. Brown had signed one of these agreements before her departure from WISH-TV.
Brown's contract required that she not "accept employment involving the rendering of any services, (including electronic media) whether or not for compensation, live or recorded, over the facilities of any radio or commercial television station, including cable, closed circuit or pay teleivison which broadcasts or transmits to any place within the Stations' Market."
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