Trent v. Channel 10, WPLG-TV, Post-Newsweek Stations

HENDRY, Judge.

This is an appeal by the plaintiff below from an adverse summary judgment which he suffered after the trial court granted the defendant’s motion for a directed verdict.

The appellant, Ed Trent, was a commissioned advertising salesman for Channel 10 television station in Miafni for approximately nine years when his employment relationship with the station was terminated on April 13, 1973.

The defendant, Post-Newsweek Stations, Florida, Inc. acquired ownership of the station on or about October 29, 1969, and after that date it was Trent’s employer.

Trent filed this lawsuit on…