Between the two they have been at the station for 77 years.

But, because Allen Media is so desperate to cut costs, both of them lost their jobs at WTHI (Terre Haute).

Patrece Dayton and Kevin Orpurt did what many don’t do, they stuck around. Very often people would take a starter job in a small market like Terre Haute, Indiana, and then move onto a bigger market.

Dayton and Orpurt stayed, they made the place their home and were well known to the viewers of WTHI.

But, Allen Media decided that they were expendable and they were laid off.

“Kevin and I have come into your homes for decades — nearly 37 years for me,” Patrece Dayton, a news anchor in Terre Haute, Indiana, told viewers on Friday in front of a box of tissues. “And more than 40 for me,” added Kevin Orpurt, the TV station’s chief meteorologist.

“For those of you who don’t know, both of our positions are being eliminated here at WTHI-TV,” Dayton continued. “The television business in general is changing nationwide and budget cuts are happening everywhere.”

The same story played out at other Allen Media stations.

“By now most of you have probably seen the chatter about Allen media letting local meteorologists go, well I am one that will be affected by this,” Amber Kulick, a meteorologist at WAAY in Huntsville, Alabama, wrote in a Facebook post. “For now I am still at the station but I am looking for my next career opportunity.”

“Weather forecasts will be sent from the weather channel in Atlanta,” Burkhart said in a Facebook post. “These will be pre-recorded by regional meteorologists recording hits for each Allen station. Live severe weather coverage will also come from them.”

This is what you get when a company puts profits before people.

All of these people deserved better, but Allen Media is just that bad of a company.