Posted on 03/05/2025 9:29:39 AM PST by CFW
The Walt Disney Co. is slashing just under 200 jobs at ABC News and at its Disney Entertainment Networks division as the traditional TV business continues to face economic headwinds, a source familiar with the decision tells The Hollywood Reporter. The cuts represented about 6 percent of the division’s workforce.
ABC News will be hit particularly hard, with the data-driven digital news brand 538 being shuttered, teams from Nightline and 20/20 being consolidated, and all three hours of Good Morning America moving under the same top producer, Simone Swink. The company is also merging its digital and social operations.
Disney’s entertainment networks will see cuts in program planning and scheduling, according to the Wall Street Journal, which first reported the cuts there. Disney’s channels include FX and Freeform. The newsletter Status first reported the looming cuts at ABC News.
ABC News last saw job cuts last fall, when around 75 jobs were eliminated. The news division had announced Almin Karamehmedovic as its president last August.
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Legacy media keep rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. Their influence among voters is almost at the point of being non-existent.
Disney Does DOGE….
Was David Muir DOGEed?
Soon the 3 alphabet networks will not be free over the air but a purchasable App like Netflix. They are going the way of the spaghetti westerns.
It is intriguing that -- though it takes time -- marketing crushes ideological Leftism and simple perversion. Tick tock.
Did anyone still believe that 538 was an objective statistical outfit instead of a propaganda unit masquerading as math nerds?
So when will a Federal District court judge rule that Disney had no right to fire them and they get their jobs back?
ABC announces “Good Night America”, one night only.
ABC may end up with their viewer numbers becoming less than the letters in their new president’s name
“digital news brand 538 being shuttered”
that’s Nate Silver’s former polling operation ... now it’s kaput ...
ABC, NBC and CBS. All are anachronisms that can’t compete in the modern world. You would thing they would make drastic changes to try to reinvent themselves?
Not a chance. To fix Dismey they have to fire 90% — get rid of the DEI losers and perverts they have hired for last decade or two.
Any such announcement is nothing more than rebranding. DEI crappola is rebranded as “inclusive creators”.
“Soon the 3 alphabet networks will not be free over the air but a purchasable App like Netflix.”
CNN has already announced that’s the “strategic” direction they’re headed for; they might just as well have announced they’re strategically headed for the trashbin of history, because CNN+ had already failed in less than six weeks with a sunk cost of $300 million ... broadcast/cablecast can’t possibly come even close to TV ad and carrier revenues when going all digital subscription ...
“Did anyone still believe that 538 was an objective statistical outfit instead of a propaganda unit masquerading as math nerds?”
i’m thinking that disney/abc nuked nate silver’s 538 because their fake/push polling wasn’t working anymore, so why waste more money on fake news that wasn’t working ... time to generate some better fake news ...
ChatGPT says that child grooming does not happen, and if it does, it is definitely not a homosexual thing.
ChatGPT is a homosexual child groomer. :)
Is a judge going to stop these?
What does ABC give Disney, that Disney could not just do on their own as “Disney”?
Any (viable) orig entertainment content could be branded as Disney and a new “Disney Adult” could be a new channel.
ABC news can not be a money maker. Dump it.
All of a sudden this spring everyone is no longer afraid to cut fat.
“ABC, NBC and CBS. All are anachronisms that can’t compete in the modern world. You would thing they would make drastic changes to try to reinvent themselves?”
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It’s fun to make that claim, but the measurable numbers show that any one of those networks has multiple times more viewers each day than any cable network, including Fox.
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