WXYZ: Program director.
Detroit Free Press, March 8, 1989, Page 22.
Larry Alt, the man whose job is being filled at WXYZ-TV, was evidently not aware of the growing influence of women in TV, if we are to believe some of the charges leveled against him in a sex discrimination suit filed last week. The suit was filed by Nancy Pushee, who worked at WXYZ for 12 years, most recently as a publicist, until she was laid off last July.
In court papers, Pushee charges she was the target of sexual advances and verbal abuse from Alt. She quotes Alt as making such remarks as “What would it take to get you to bed?” and “If I had your body, I would be rich.” The suit also alleges that Pushee was told by her superiors that, when she attended station events, she should dress in a “seductive, revealing, and/or otherwise inappropriate manner of a sexual nature.”
Alt resigned abruptly from WXYZ in December. Several station insiders said he was asked to leave. He reportedly is working as a consultant to a company that is trying to start a TV station in Texas. Several attempts to reach him for reaction to the charges have proved fruitless.
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