As if ABC Information wanted extra drama.

Simply as “GMA3” is formally washing its palms of co-anchors T.J. Holmes and Amy Robach’s salacious love affair, one other scandal is rocking one of many community’s flagship native information broadcasts.

Ken Rosato, longtime anchor of “Eyewitness Information This Morning” on New York’s WABC 7, has been given the boot after allegedly making an off-color comment, Web page Six has solely discovered.

Rosato was off the air when he uttered the phrase, we’re advised, however an insider advised us his comment was picked up “on an open mic” and was “instantly let go.”

It’s unclear what Rosato stated or when precisely he made the remark.

One other supply would solely say he was “fired for trigger instantly.”

Rosato’s colleagues discovered in regards to the firing on Friday. We’re advised his co-anchors had been introduced in “one-by-one” for a discuss it, however administration wouldn’t inform them what he stated.

Our insider additionally doesn’t know what he uttered, however believes it was a “racial slur.”

On Friday, the station’s normal supervisor alerted staffers by way of e-mail that Rosato “is not with WABC.” “We thank him for his years of service,” they wrote.

Rosato joined “Eyewitness Information” as a contract reporter in 2003 and was promoted to morning and midday anchor in 2007. He anchored “This Morning” with Shirleen Allicot, Heather O’Rourke, and Sam Champion.

A rep for ABC Information and Rosato didn’t get again to us.

The previous anchor’s bio has been wiped from the corporate’s web site. His each day tweets from the anchor desk stopped on Could 2.