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Sports Illustrated’s entire staff told they are getting laid off
The Newy York Post ^ | 1/19/2024 | Miles Schachner

Posted on 01/19/2024 10:12:51 AM PST by T.B. Yoits

The Arena Group alerted all Sports Illustrated staffers on Friday that their positions were being eliminated.

Richard Deitsch, a sports media reporter who left for Sports Illustrated for the Athletic, posted the email that all employees received on X.

It noted, in part, that some employees would be “terminated immediately.”

The decision comes after the Authentic Brands Group, the licensing group that bought Sports Illustrated for $110 million from Meredith five years ago, terminated the agreement it holds with The Arena Group to publish the magazine in print and digital, per Front Office Sports.

“Some employees will be terminated immediately, and paid in lieu of the applicable notice period under the [the union contract],” the notice read. “Employees with a last working day of today will be contacted by the People team soon. Other employees will be expected to work through the end of the notice period, and will receive additional information shortly.”

The Arena Group missed a $2.8 million payment that breached the company’s Sports Illustrated licensing deal three weeks ago.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Sports
KEYWORDS: fired; gowokegobroke; illustrated; magazine; media; sports; staff
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To: T.B. Yoits

Maybe adding men in bikinis and women in burquas to the Swimsuit Issue was a bad idea.


61 posted on 01/19/2024 11:06:01 AM PST by dead (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_vFiUUcBkc)
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To: T.B. Yoits

62 posted on 01/19/2024 11:08:40 AM PST by dead (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_vFiUUcBkc)
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To: dead

I can see her ankles! Hubba hubba!!


63 posted on 01/19/2024 11:10:31 AM PST by I-ambush (From the brightest star comes the blackest hole. You had so much to offer, why didya offer your sou?)
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To: odawg; T.B. Yoits
Go woke, go broke.

IIRC, SI was an early adopter.

64 posted on 01/19/2024 11:11:26 AM PST by paulcissa (Politicians want you unarmed because they intend on doing things that you would shoot them for.)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

“Do we get to keep the swimsuit issue?”

Why, are you into homosexual doods?


65 posted on 01/19/2024 11:12:45 AM PST by CodeToad (Rule #1: The elites want you dead.)
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To: T.B. Yoits

Go woke, go broke

They disrespected their customers and their customers quit buying what they were selling.


66 posted on 01/19/2024 11:13:05 AM PST by CIB-173RDABN (I am not an expert in anything, and my opinion is just that, an opinion. I may be wrong.)
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To: dfwgator

I got rid of broadcast television in 1997. I couldn’t have done it if I was into watching sports on television.


67 posted on 01/19/2024 11:14:36 AM PST by cuban leaf (2024 is going to be one for the history books, like 1939. And 2025 will be more so, like 1940-1945.)
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To: T.B. Yoits

Spare the tranny swimsuit issue!


68 posted on 01/19/2024 11:16:58 AM PST by Old Yeller (On judgement day, you’ll wish you were biblically correctly, not politically correct.)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Yes
But only the uggos and high mass density models as that’s what is hot according to unlikable fashion forecasters.

And I sincerely wish that wasn’t the truth.


69 posted on 01/19/2024 11:17:20 AM PST by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same. )
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To: T.B. Yoits

Hope they are bankrupt beyond repair for their WOKE bullcr@p!


70 posted on 01/19/2024 11:29:25 AM PST by bantam
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To: dfwgator
“I’ve got fudge!”

Hershey's Chocolate Kisses...we're talking Hagen Daaz, babe whadda ya say?

71 posted on 01/19/2024 11:39:59 AM PST by Ouderkirk (The modern world demands that we approve what it should not even dare ask us to tolerate.)
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To: T.B. Yoits

looking forward to Lizzo on the cover.


72 posted on 01/19/2024 11:47:30 AM PST by coalminersson (since )
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To: T.B. Yoits

As recently as 2020, 50% of sports page news copy was being written by computer software.

Same story for business news.

AI - years before anyone had heard of AI.


73 posted on 01/19/2024 11:56:29 AM PST by zeestephen (Trump "Lost" By 43,000 Votes - Spread Across Three States - GA, WI, AZ)
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To: T.B. Yoits

Tragic. We had a subscription to this when I was a lad, back in the 70s and early 80s. It was top notch. They also have an outstanding archive online, makes for really good reading when trying to get through the occasional boring patch at the office.


74 posted on 01/19/2024 12:03:25 PM PST by oldskoolwargamer2
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To: DIRTYSECRET

LOL!!! you forgot the /S... 8^)


75 posted on 01/19/2024 12:05:26 PM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: T.B. Yoits

What is a “People team?”


76 posted on 01/19/2024 12:08:11 PM PST by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump. )
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To: T.B. Yoits
Authentic Brands Group, the licensing group that bought Sports Illustrated for $110 million from Meredith five years ago

Woke & Broke in less than 60 months.

77 posted on 01/19/2024 12:08:48 PM PST by HonkyTonkMan ( )
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To: alternatives?

Drivel.


78 posted on 01/19/2024 12:09:23 PM PST by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump. )
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To: Lizavetta

My Gawd! I need eye-bleach! Reminds me of a Mick Dumdell article from 2016.

https://pansiesforplato.wordpress.com/2016/03/06/sie-kommen-a-long-waybaby/


79 posted on 01/19/2024 12:13:14 PM PST by Penelope Dreadful (And there is Pansies, that's for Thoughts. +Sodomy & Abortion are NOT cornerstones of Civilization! )
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To: T.B. Yoits

Remembering Kathy Ireland. 🐈‍⬛


80 posted on 01/19/2024 12:14:06 PM PST by Varsity Flight ( "War by 🙏🙏 the prophesies set before you." I Timothy 1:18. Nazarite prayer warriors. 10.5.6.5)
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