Announcer Ron Franklin has filed a lawsuit against ESPN for wrongful termination in his home city of Austin, Texas.

Franklin confirmed the report to Michael McCarthy of the USA Today but declined to comment on how much he’s seeking in damages or details of the lawsuit.

Earlier this month, Franklin was pulled from a radio broadcast after making derogatory comments towards colleague Jeannie Edwards.

Two days after the story broke, Franklin was fired from ESPN after 25 years.

CNBC’s Maria Bartiromo talks with the New York Yankees’ Joba Chamberlain and the Boston Red Sox David Ortiz during today’s Closing Bell at the CES in Las Vegas.

We spent some time this afternoon at the NBC Universal booth at CES. Several NBC properties are represented here: NBC.com, the NBC stations, the affiliate news service NewsChannel as well as NBC News and CNBC. Lester Holt will co-anchor the Saturday Today show. And Maria Bartiromo is here to anchor Closing Bell and her weekend Wall St. Journal Report.

We caught up with Bartiromo on the CNBC set in the middle of the action and talked about how the recession is affecting the consumer electronics industry and why NBCU has chosen to spend big bucks (this year’s booth is twice as big as last year’s) to be the broadcast sponsor: