Intern attacks producer at KSTP-TV, but there'll be no film at 10

A KSTP-TV intern allegedly broke a glass door as she charged at an exec producer who had to run for her life.

St. Paul police were called to KSTP-TV about 7:15 p.m. on Oct. 13 to deal with "an intern [who] was out of control. It was determined that intern had been disruptive, threatening and damaged property," states the "public narrative" of a police report.

No charges have been filed against the intern, whom I reached by phone on Sunday to ask about the run-in with executive producer Danielle Prenevost.

When asked whether it was true that she had chased a manager around the newsroom, the intern said, "No comment." You didn't chase Danielle, I persisted? "No comment," said the intern. "I'll talk to you later."

Then I called KSTP-TV to ask Prenevost about the altercation. "That's not something I'm going to talk about, thank you," Prenevost said. Did you call the police? "I'm going to hang up now, thank you, C.J., good-bye."

St. Paul Police Department spokesman Pete Panos has seen the full police report: "Female intern they had had some disciplinary problems with; she was having problems that morning. They decided to terminate her at that point. When they did, she went off on the person who terminated her. Tried to attack Danielle. Somebody got in between them. Later on in the morning, this girl came at her again. Danielle ran into an office, and the girl busted the [glass] out. Security and a couple of employees had to escort the girl out and wait with her until her mom came and picked her up."

Sounds like a beauty of a scene.

Thankfully that was not the position of broadcasting sources who spoke of Prenevost's in-your-face management style. This incident is a wake-up call, as one source said Prenevost may not realize just how unpleasant a boss she is. When Prenevost doesn't get what she wants from an underling, she reportedly has been known to say condescendingly: My orders to you were ...

Bad manager, BAD MANAGER!

Change at FM107 Word has it that FM107 did not renew the contract of Meredith Teplitz.

A station manager did not return a phone call about the disappearance of the younger, denser half of the "Stephanie & Meredith Show."

I'm told that managers just didn't think Meredith fit well with the older, wiser Stephanie Hansen. Managers were expecting intergenerational lightning to strike, and it just didn't.

He needs real friends WCCO-AM's apologists for KFAN's Jeff Dubay were out in full force Saturday afternoon.

Considering how Dark Star and Eric Nelson were cogitating in Dubay's defense, I thought his police matter was just a big misunderstanding.

Guess not. KFAN's Dubay got charged Wednesday with felony drug possession. He allegedly threw crack and a pipe out of his car window when Maplewood police arrested him.

With Nelson occupying the Amen corner, Dark, who always knows the deep background he's not at liberty to divulge, sent apologists' shout-outs to their broadcasting brother, asking that Dubay not be judged too harshly before the facts about his arrest were known. Some of the alleged facts are out. Is crack cocaine better than the drug inaccurately reported by some media outlets? No, it isn't.

Dubay's apparent dabble with drugs (and now we know the probable reason for his summer leave of absence) is sad enough. If Dubay is dedicated to licking this problem, he probably needs support from friends with much more backbone than Dark and Eric.