Meteorologist Ashley Brown, who worked at WISH-TV from 2017 to early 2025, filed the lawsuit against Circle City Broadcasting I LLC in Marion Superior Court.
The court ruled that when DISH and DirecTV Network declined to pay broadcast fees to Circle City Broadcasting for rights to carry the company’s two Indianapolis-based television stations, that decision did not reflect discrimination.
Randy Ollis, who has been delivering weather forecasts for WISH-TV Channel 8 in Indianapolis since 1984, plans to leave the station later this year, he announced on Facebook.
A federal judge has ruled that a racial discrimination lawsuit filed against AT&T by Circle City Broadcasting, which owns WISH-TV Channel 8 and WNDY-TV Channel 23, may move forward as the two companies battle over retransmission fees.
Dr. Jerome Adams has strong ties to central Indiana, having served as Indiana state health commissioner from 2014 to 2017. After the close of the Trump administration, he returned to the Indianapolis area to practice medicine.
Indianapolis-based Circle City Broadcasting in March filed a lawsuit in district court in Indianapolis against Dish TV, accusing Dish of racial discrimination as the two sides negotiate over fees that WISH is seeking to be retransmitted on the satellite service.
