With the calendar flipping to 2025, the news television industry has continued to undergo layoffs, with NBC News being the latest outlet preparing to slash jobs.
According to a CNBC report, the network is preparing to join CNN in enact a round of layoffs. However, unlike CNN, this round will reportedly be significantly smaller. “Well under 50 people” are expected to lose their positions with NBC News, the report suggests.
The layoffs at NBC News come on the heels of the revelation that CNN was slashing roughly 6% of its workforce — around 200 employees — as part of a restructuring. Like CNN, the NBC News layoffs are expected to mainly affect those working behind the scenes as producers, technicians, and editors, rather than on-air staff.
The network will hope to streamline its newsgathering operations with the reduction in force.
Layoffs at NBC News coincide with parent company Comcast previously announcing plans for the cable assets in its portfolio — namely MSNBC and CNBC, among others — to be spun off into a separate entity called SpinCo.
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