Did She Leave, or was She Pushed? (Patreon)

FTVLive was the FIRST to tell you that longtime WTTG morning Anchor Allison Seymour announced at the end of the newscast on Friday she was leaving the station. 

Seymour made it a point to say that this was completely her idea to leave. When you feel the need to say this was your decision, many times it is not. 

Judging by all the email that FTVLive has received, many think that Seymour made the choice to leave, but that she was clearly pushed toward the exit by management. 

"Allison is the nicest person in the world and management treated her like shit," said one WTTG staffer to FTVLive. 

Others point to the fact that WTTG management brought in Angie Goff on the morning show and greatly reduced Seymour's role. 

Many inside the station believe that Goff is the "teacher's pet" and is loved by management. It appears that viewers might see it the same as well. One DC viewer emailed FTVLive saying this: 

"Personally I can’t stand Goff and breaking up the chemistry between Seymour and Steve Chenevy is a mistake - I stopped watching when they forced her on to the show and I definitely won’t go back now. Goff has no appeal and is just set on climbing over everyone on her way to the top. She probably hasn’t been at WTTG for a year yet but she got sent to cover the World Series and Super Bowl. Wonder how the longtime staffers there feel about that?" 

A couple of station staffers at the Fox O&O say that the atmosphere at the station is "toxic" and they believe that Seymour left because of it. 

A telling example of Seymour's exit can be seen in this tweet by WTTG GM Patrick Paolini just after Seymour signed off.

The tweet got only one comment that was deleted and 13 "Likes." The interesting thing about the likes, is only two came from station staffers. One was WTTG News Director Paul McGonagle, which was no surprise as he is part of management and also wants to suck up to the boss. 

The other was from fairly new WTTG Anchor Blake McCoy who works opposite shifts from Seymour and likely has almost never seen her. 

You would have thought that a tweet from the GM about a long time and loved employee would have gotten much more engagement from station staffers. But, as one WTTG insider said to FTVLive, "they know that Patrick (Paolini) was a big reason that Allison left."

FTVLive told you that crosstown rival WUSA has an opening for a morning Anchor and a number of people emailing FTVLive wondered if Seymour could be crossing the street to the Tegna station? 

If WUSA teamed up Seymour with former WTTG Anchors, Annie Yu, and Tony Perkins it would likely be a ratings winner. 

Imagine if WUSA finally dropped the comedian they are using to "anchor" the morning newscast and replaced him with a Journalist like Seymour and you could see the Tegna station instantly gain a huge shot of credibility on their morning newscasts. 

And since this is Tegna we're talking about, that is the reason that this won't happen. It makes too much sense for Tegna to make that move and when was the last time you saw the words "Tegna" and "Making Sense" in the same sentence?