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March 24, 2021

NBCU has laid off 130 employees in Los Angeles since the start of the year.

The company laid off 300 last year.

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March 5, 2021

Sinclair is laying off 5% of its workforce, or potentially more than 400 people.

Sinclair has 186 television stations in 87 markets.

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January 29, 2021

Three people were laid off at NBC Sports Chicago.

This is not the first round of layoffs for the network.

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January 19, 2021

CNN will close CNN Airport Network.

It closes in March.

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January 19, 2021

Univision stations in New York, Miami and Houston went through an unreported number of layoffs.

No number was specified.

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December 5, 2020

ABC News had an unreported number of layoffs.

The layoffs included correspondents, producers and executives.

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December 3, 2020

Spectrum News newsrooms in upstate New York will reorganize, which could result in layoffs.

No numbers have been reported yet. Spectrum News is owned by Charter Communications.

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November 16, 2020

ESPN is laying off 300 people and leaving 200 positions unfilled.

“The cuts will affect most divisions across the company, but are especially concentrated in broadcast production.”

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September 18, 2020

Fox News will lay off 3% of staff. Employees in hair and makeup were the most impacted.

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September 4, 2020

TEGNA announced a reorganization of its national and local sales teams, resulting in some pay cuts and layoffs.TEGNA declined to provide a number on the layoffs.

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August 13, 2020

WLS, a ABC-owned station in Chicago, cut four full time positions and one part-time position.

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August 13, 2020

WLS, a ABC-owned station in Chicago, cut four full time positions and one part-time position.

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August 10, 2020

NBC Universal had layoffs at NBC’s locally owned stations, resulting in the loss of at least nine jobs. NBC Universal is laying off less than 10% of its 35,000-person staff. NBC Sports Philadelphia laid off 15 people. NBC Sports Boston laid off 20, NBC Sports Bay Area laid off 17, NBC Sports Chicago laid off more than one dozen and NBC Sports Washington laid off at least 10.

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August 10, 2020

NBC Universal had layoffs at NBC’s locally owned stations, resulting in the loss of at least nine jobs. NBC Universal is laying off less than 10% of its 35,000-person staff. NBC Sports Philadelphia laid off 15 people. NBC Sports Boston laid off 20, NBC Sports Bay Area laid off 17, NBC Sports Chicago laid off more than one dozen and NBC Sports Washington laid off at least 10.

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July 6, 2020

KTVU in Oakland, California laid off four people.

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