Ad Agency Sues Belo Corp.

An alert FrontBurnervian points us to this summary of a suit filed against Belo Corp. by a small advertising agency called AP Communications. If I understand this correctly, AP claims that its president, Ann Page-Cahill, confronted WFAA about its alleged practice of over-billing clients. In retaliation, WFAA supposedly caused AP’s biggest client, Baylor Health Care System, to drop AP. From Courthouse News:

“The reason given for the termination was demonstrably untrue and an obvious pretext,” the complaint states. “In a more candid moment, an employee of BHCS admitted to Ms. Cahill that the true reason for the termination of plaintiff’s agency agreement was ‘the whole WFAA thing.'”