Saturday, December 06, 2008

Media's Black Friday - or week

Believe it or not, there were even more layoffs and firings outside of Steve Dahl this week alone:

- Fred Huebner, 16-year veteran of WSCR-AM as the sports news reporter

- Overnight jock "Wild" Bill Garcia, US99 (WSCR-AM) veteran

- Chicago Public Radio lays off eleven

- ABC affiliate KSTP-TV in Minneapolis cut eighteen people from its newsroom

- Real Networks lays off 150

- NBC Universal slashes 500 jobs

- Viacom, a.k.a "The V of Doom" lowers the boom and axes 850 people

The media business is stating to resemble a MASH unit!

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