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Deb O’Keefe, one-half of the former “Jason & Deb” morning show on modern rock “101X” KROX Austin, has sued station owner Waterloo Media for breach of contract.

"101X's culture became toxic shortly after Bob Sinclair began managing it,” O’Keefe said in the suit, which was filed in December 2021. “One way in which Bob Sinclair did this was by continually making misogynistic, racist, and discriminatory comments."

O’Keefe, who was fired in 2021, two years after Waterloo (Sinclair Telecable) acquired a majority stake in the former Emmis cluster, is seeking more than $1 million in monetary relief, according to the Austin Chronicle.

Waterloo Media denied “each and every allegation” in a response that was filed in March 2022. In September of last year, the company filed a counterclaim saying that O’Keefe breached her own contract. Waterloo Media claims that O'Keefe was fired only after "she was issued eight written warnings ... regarding excessive absences and habitual tardiness from December 2018 through January 2021."

Additionally, the radio group claims that O’Keefe also violated her contract by "publishing disparaging or damaging information concerning Waterloo on her public social media accounts." Following her firing, Waterloo Media says O’Keefe posted, "Our owner has extreme dislike for me, and used a petty reason to get rid of me ... He is a petty, Trump-loving moron, who has decimated our staff and affected our company horribly since he took over, and who has more money than sense."

In her filing, O’Keefe, who joined KROX in 2006, says she had a "great working relationship" with former owners Emmis Communications. However, things changed when Waterloo Media took over the operations of the cluster.

"In his first conversation with a female Hispanic employee who was born in Mexico, Bob Sinclair told her, 'If you slip up, I'm calling immigration,'” O’Keefe said in the suit. “On other occasions, Bob would jokingly ask if the Hispanic co-worker left her sombrero at home."

She claims that Sinclair "was willing to damage the careers of female employees in order to prop up the careers of male employees." The suit mentions alleged demotions and firings of several current and past employees within the group.

The suit also states, "When discussing issues related to 'The Jason and Deb Show,' Bob Sinclair would say that 'Jason wears the pants, so I'll talk to Jason about it.'"

O’Keefe says that she did not feel bringing her concerns to human resources would result in any changes since a Sinclair family member oversaw the department.

" did not feel she could go to the Human Resources Department because Bob Sinclair appointed his nephew, Chris Sinclair, as head of HR at Waterloo. believes that nonetheless, management reported opposition to sexism and gender discrimination to Bob Sinclair. believes Mr. Sinclair retaliated against her for that report. was terminated by Bob Sinclair / Waterloo soon after."

According to the Chronicle, the suit accuses Waterloo Media of various violations of the Texas Labor Code, including a hostile work environment, age discrimination, disability discrimination, and gender discrimination. In it, O’Keefe is described as a woman over the age of 40 with a "diagnosis of depression stemming from a head injury she suffered around 10-15 years ago." She says she was approved in June 2020 to take a leave from work "to receive inpatient treatment for depression and related alcohol abuse." The leave of absence totaled four weeks away from the station.

Outside of the approved leave of absence, O’Keefe claims she had to call in sick or arrived late for her morning show on several occasions due to depression and headaches. The suit says Waterloo Media’s "stated reason for firing – tardiness – was pretext for discrimination."

The company’s counterclaim says O’Keefe received multiple notices before her dismissal.

"O'Keefe breached the Agreement by failing or refusal to comply with Company rules, policies, or directives after receiving notice of such failures,” the counterclaim says, according to the Austin Chronicle. “O'Keefe further breached the Agreement through her unsatisfactory performance of obligations under the Agreement following thirty days' written notice and her subsequent failure to cure non-performance within period."

O’Keefe said she was not treated the same as her co-host Jason Dick, who also exited the station in December 2022, after 22 years with the influential modern rock outlet.

"In 2021, Jason Dick was consistently tardy or absent, but was not fired,” her suit says. “ position after her termination was offered to a 23-year-old female who had no professional on-air experience."

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