Posted on 03/27/2008 3:39:47 PM PDT by abb
There were deep cuts at ABC News in New York this week as more than 20 employees in the finance and operations departments were informed that their jobs were being eliminated as part of an ongoing restructuring project that began last spring. pink slip
“This new structure will streamline how we receive our finance and operations support. It will also make that support more directly responsible to those at ABC News who depend on it the most. And it should move us forward faster and more effectively into the evolving digital world,” ABC News president David Westin said in an internal e-mail.
Many of those eliminated, ABC News staffers said, have been there for decades.
The cuts began Wednesday with pink slips for employees in the finance department and extended into Thursday with the elimination of jobs in operations.
Dan Renaldo, who was the senior vice president with oversight of those departments, left earlier this year for NBC. His position, which had remained vacant, was eliminated while several new positions in finance and operations were created.
Operations employees will now report to Dave Davis, the executive VP who was brought in from WABC last fall. Davis, who has day-to-day oversight of ABC News programs and operations, reports to Westin.
The cuts in New York followed the downsizing of the graphics department at the news division’s Washington, D.C., bureau, where more than one-dozen staffers were laid off last summer.
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By the end of this decade or shortly thereafter, television networks as we know them today will cease to exist. They will be just another url on the world wide web competing against millions of others.
Network evening newscasts will go dark after the ‘08 elections and their news divisions disbanded.
the sooner NBC,MSNBC, CNN, ABC, CBS, NPR, BBC, etc go out fo buisness the better
especially MSNBC after viewing that channel here and there today I can only think they must be getting paid of obama
My kid’s an intern at ABC News. She’s been looking forward to getting a regular position after she graduates in June. She just called to tell us this news, as I saw it here. She had th probability of a good starting position, so while I understand the schadenfreud on the board this is one I can’t join in the celebtations.
Sad for her. However, I signed off network news, especially ABC years ago. The All Boy Clinton, Nothing But Clinton and Clinton BS stations made me sick. After I threw the remote one time at my TV, I decided to no longer watch their version of news which could instantly be found inaccurate on the web. So now I get my news from the Internet. So long Charlie Gibson, Brian Williams and Katie Couric. Can;t wait for your pink slips to arrive!!!
SAounds like the beancounters found the petrified forest.
Simple minded schadenfreude masks the true stakes in America’s information war. Tyranny’s propaganda infrastructure must get destroyed to preserve the American Republic.
Sorry for the people.
Completely correct.
Companies often lay-off expensive older employees and then hire younger, cheaper ones. Maybe your daughter still has a shot. Hope so.
Thanks for the ping.
My sentiments exactly. My husband works at Nightline and ABC pays our mortgage. So I won't try to rain on the party here but I cannot join in either.
Best of luck to your daughter.
That won't happen any time soon ... at least not that dramatically ... they, in time, will just fade away. The Walter Cronkite days are long over, the new talking heads, with the advent of the Internet, can't get away with the liberal crap he managed to foist on viewers.
However, most of the channels are owned by the corporations that own the networks. Personally, I think after the 2008 elections, the network news broadcasts will fade away, replaced by the 24 hour news channels.
There are opportunities, probably more than before, but it is a whole new world.
Since they have much less $$$ to count, they obviously need far fewer people to count it..
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