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Disney to Lay Off Nearly 6% of Staff Across ABC News, Disney Entertainment Networks, Report Says
Investopedia via MSN ^ | 03/05/2025 | Nisha Gopalan

Posted on 03/05/2025 9:26:10 PM PST by SeekAndFind

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The Walt Disney Co. (DIS) is laying off around 200 employees, or just under 6% of the combined staff at its ABC News Group and Disney Entertainment Networks units, according to a new report from The Wall Street Journal.

According to The Journal, which cited people familiar with the matter, an announcement will be made to employees as early as Wednesday. The report said the ABC news magazine shows “20/20” and “Nightline” are consolidating into one unit. The Journal is also reporting the network is cutting the political and data-driven news site 538 as well a production team at “Good Morning America." There will be job cuts in program planning and scheduling at the Disney Entertainment Networks unit, which houses cable channel FX, the report said.

Disney didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. The company's shares are roughly flat in premarket trading Wednesday. The Journal said the newsletter Status "first reported that cuts were coming to ABC News."

Disney is, like the rest of the entertainment industry, grappling with cord-cutting and the decline of cable networks’ audience while its Disney+ streaming platform has seen subscribers drop quarter-over-quarter even as that of dominant platform Netflix (NFLX) thrives and raises prices. The company posted better-than-estimated quarterly results last month although Disney+ subscribers slipped from the prior quarter.

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


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: abcnews; disney; layoffs
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1 posted on 03/05/2025 9:26:10 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Too bad ABC insulted and lied their way out of an audience. They are perverts and communists and deserve to go out of business.


2 posted on 03/05/2025 9:28:38 PM PST by wildcard_redneck ( )
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To: SeekAndFind

So, are they going to start protesting against Trump and Musk and start shopping for the evil black-robed “pipe bombs” while making death threats against the Trump, Vance and Musk families?

Joann’s is closing all their stores. Haven’t heard if they are going to start judge shopping, protesting and attacking little kids with brain cancer. They probably won’t.

Starbucks is laying off 1100. Haven’t heard if they intend to protest and throw tantrums and have a token running jackass around swinging a cane with a golden handle at people.


3 posted on 03/05/2025 9:37:55 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (SCOTUS stuck it to Americans again. Africa and other failed communist dumps are our responsibility.)
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To: SeekAndFind

6% ? It’s the other 94% that’s the problem.


4 posted on 03/05/2025 9:39:50 PM PST by Bullish (...And just like that I was kicked off the Ping list.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Early result of the loss of USAID money.


5 posted on 03/05/2025 9:45:37 PM PST by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: SeekAndFind

How many employees will take Iger to court for firing them?

Where are the outraged democrats?


6 posted on 03/05/2025 9:51:04 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I always knew it from the late ‘50s The mouse is a commie


7 posted on 03/05/2025 11:24:09 PM PST by Herakles (Diversity is applied Marxism )
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8 posted on 03/06/2025 12:20:59 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: wildcard_redneck

That’s for Roseanne.


9 posted on 03/06/2025 2:20:23 AM PST by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need ofand there we a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: SeekAndFind

The cancer of woke, DEI, LGBTQ, gay and transgenderism that has infected Disney


10 posted on 03/06/2025 2:26:05 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: Eleutheria5
And Gina Carano.

-PJ

11 posted on 03/06/2025 2:30:00 AM PST by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: Political Junkie Too

Yeah. Her, too. They seem to be incapable of handling strong, independent-minded women, even if starlets no longer have to put out for the same fatso execs.


12 posted on 03/06/2025 2:47:07 AM PST by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need ofand there we a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: wildcard_redneck

Winning, not tired yet


13 posted on 03/06/2025 2:53:26 AM PST by af_vet_1981 ( The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began.)
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To: SeekAndFind

“while its streaming platform has seen quarter-over-quarter declines in subscribers.”

pretty much the fate of any and all broadcast/cablecast “news” shows considering going all digital subscription in misbegotten attempts to replace diminishing revenue from ad/carrier fees because of diminishing audiences ... CNN+ had already spectacularly failed with a loss of $300 million, and yet their new CEO once again yammers about a “new” strategic direction of going digital subscriptions, the net result being little more than he gets to keep his job a couple of years longer while CNN’s “new” soon-to-fail strategic direction is implemented ...


14 posted on 03/06/2025 3:15:06 AM PST by catnipman ((A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil))
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15 posted on 03/06/2025 3:35:11 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: Herakles

I heard that the spelling has changed to “DEIsney”.


16 posted on 03/06/2025 3:55:16 AM PST by Machavelli (True God)
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To: SeekAndFind

For news on all things Disney go to YouTube channels WDW Pro, That Park Place.

Best reportage anywhere.


17 posted on 03/06/2025 4:06:28 AM PST by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Will ABC interview the laid off employees😎


18 posted on 03/06/2025 4:21:40 AM PST by blitz128
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To: SeekAndFind

Has some obscure judge decided that Disney can’t lay off their employees yet?


19 posted on 03/06/2025 6:34:54 AM PST by Flint
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To: SeekAndFind
Only 6%?

Whatever. How about starting with the entire cast of The View.

20 posted on 03/06/2025 7:56:46 AM PST by Albion Wilde (“Did you ever meet a woke person that’s happy? There’s no such thing.” —Donald J. Trump)
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