By Jen Heger - Breaking Celebrity News Legal Editor

Powerhouse attorney Gloria Allred, is representing respected television news weather broadcaster, Kyle Hunter, who claims in a new lawsuit that he was denied an employment opportunity to work in prime time because of his age and gender, Breaking Celebrity News is exclusively reporting.

The lawsuit alleges that Hunter attempted to interview for two vacancies at KCBS and KCAL, both in Los Angeles, but he wasn't even given the opportunity to interview for the positions because, "KCAL and KCBS decided to hire young attractive women as weather broadcasters in prime time rather than men in order to induce more men to watch their prime time newscasts." CBS owns the KCBS and KCAL affiliates.

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"It is important because although most victims of gender discrimination are female, men such as Kyle Hunter can also be victims and they are also protected from sex and age discrimination under the law,” Allred tells Breaking Celebrity News exclusively. “There are many individuals in broadcast news who fear filing a lawsuit alleging employment discrimination because they worry that they will be retaliated against and be blackballed if they assert their rights to be free of discrimination. Kyle has decided to proceed today because he is concerned not only about the denial of his employment opportunity, but also because he is worried about what he considers to be a trend in television news to hire young women as weather broadcasters in prime time while denying qualified male meteorologists the opportunity to be considered for those jobs.