Disney, who owns ABC-TV, has announced that they will be cutting 6 percent of their television workforce.
That’s about 200 employees.
Status was the first to report, and employees were notified earlier this week of their terminations via an internal email.
The memo read in part:
“ABC News Group and Disney Entertainment Networks continually evaluate new ways to effectively manage resources and boost efficiencies.”
ABC News Studios and the television shows 20/20 and Nightline will be consolidated into one team. They will also be shutting down 538, the data-driven site founded by Nate Silver, and cutting staffers from GMA3.
Bloomberg reports that Disney has eliminated more than 8,000 roles since 2023 as part of an effort to cut $7.5 billion in annual costs.
In its most recent earnings statement, Disney reported that its broadcast and cable TV businesses suffered a drop in revenue and profit, the result of higher programming costs.
To give you an idea how much Disney actually pulls in, their Q4 financial reports state that they made $22.6 billion in the months of October, November and December of 2024.
That’s well over $80 billion in revenue per year.
The best country songs of the last 25 years were felt and heard. Commercial impact was a factor, but emotional impact is what separates these songs from others released in the 2000s.
Technically the century began in 2001, but we reached back to 2000 to summarize this list of top songs. Alan Jackson is the only artist with two songs, but you’ll find 11 Entertainer of the Year winners scattered across a playlist the required several stunning exclusions.
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