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Disney lays off workers at National Geographic, local ABC TV stations
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The Alameda Avenue entrance to the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California as it appeared in 2016.

The Walt Disney Company has issued pink slips to nearly 140 workers across its various local and national linear television operations.

The majority of the layoffs impacted workers at National Geographic, the fact-based magazine publishing and film production unit that also operates the linear National Geographic and NatGeo Wild television channels. Disney acquired National Geographic through its purchase of certain assets from 21st Century Fox (now Fox Corporation) several years ago.

Editorial, sales and marketing employees at Disney-owned ABC television stations are also among the affected workers — Disney owns the local ABC stations in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Houston, Fresno and Raleigh — and employees at its youth-oriented cable network Freeform.

The layoffs have been in the works for several months, after department heads at various Disney operations were given certain performance...
See full article at The Desk
  • 7/31/2024
  • by Matthew Keys
  • The Desk

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