LANSING – Fred Heumann, sports director and broadcaster for WLNS-TV Channel 6, is no longer with the station, officials said Thursday. WLNS is a CBS affiliate.

"Fred Heumann is no longer with the company," said Scot Chastain, WLNS vice president and general manager. "That happened yesterday."

Chastain declined to state a reason.

"As a matter of company policy we do not comment on personnel matters," he said.

Heumann declined to speak in detail about his departure from the station where he had worked for 17 years.

"There's nothing I can say," Heumann said in a telephone interview with the State Journal.

"It's still under...," he said before pausing. "We're still trying to work something out."

Heumann also declined to discuss the reason for his termination.

"I'm not a liberty to discuss that," he said. "We're still working on a resolution."

Heumann was inducted into the Central Michigan University Journalism Hall of Fame in 2018, according to an announcement on the Michigan Association of Broadcasters' website. He is a 1980 graduate of CMU and had worked at TV stations in Detroit before joining WLNS.

The broadcaster was featured regularly on the station with a series titled "Of Heumann Interest" and also appeared on "The Fifth Quarter" sports report featuring high school results after the 11 p.m. news.

WLNS is part of Nexstar Media Group.

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This story will be updated as needed.

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