Rob Lorei steps down from WEDU’s ‘Florida This Week’
March 10, 2025 - Rob Lorei, the host of WEDU-TV's Florida This Week for 23 years, announced Friday that he had been diagnosed with cancer and was stepping down from the weekly program, effective immediately. He will continue with the PBS affiliate as host of a new interview series. A co-founder of WMNF-FM, Lorei was fired from the radio station in 2021 over what the then-station manager deemed an "ethnic slur." Lorei, who had been with WMNF for more than four decades, denied the allegation.