ViacomCBS is shedding another 100 employees this week across the company as the merger between Viacom and CBS — and the resulting streamlining efforts that have followed — continue to ripple through the combined corporation.
The layoffs impact a range of departments across ViacomCBS, from sales to shared services such as finance and legal, per a source familiar with the situation. Several of the impacted divisions are reducing their teams by one or two employees, while others are being more greatly affected. Personnel at the company’s New York and Los Angeles offices will be impacted, though it is unclear which other bureaus of the global company will also see layoffs this week.
ViacomCBS has been reducing its personnel since February, with cuts over the last nine months impacting a widespread range of divisions, including CBS Entertainment, CBS News, CBS Sports, CBS Studios, CBS Television Studios, Pop TV, MTV, Comedy Central, Nickelodeon, Pop and Smithsonian.
The layoffs impact a range of departments across ViacomCBS, from sales to shared services such as finance and legal, per a source familiar with the situation. Several of the impacted divisions are reducing their teams by one or two employees, while others are being more greatly affected. Personnel at the company’s New York and Los Angeles offices will be impacted, though it is unclear which other bureaus of the global company will also see layoffs this week.
ViacomCBS has been reducing its personnel since February, with cuts over the last nine months impacting a widespread range of divisions, including CBS Entertainment, CBS News, CBS Sports, CBS Studios, CBS Television Studios, Pop TV, MTV, Comedy Central, Nickelodeon, Pop and Smithsonian.
- 11/18/2020
- by Elaine Low
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Names are starting to emerge in the layoffs at the CBS Entertainment Group.
Among those who have been notified today or last night are CBS Entertainment’s Gary Silver, Evp Business Affairs, Edy Mendoza, Svp Comedy Development; Jodi Roth, Svp Specials, Rosemary Tarquinio, Svp Current Programming and Michael Marks, VP Current Programs; as well as and CBS TV Studios’ Matt Skrobalak, Svp Talent & Casting, I have learned. All executives Svp and above have been at CBS for 14+ years. Additionally, Sean Hoagland, VP of Drama Development, CBS Entertainment, was laid off within the past couple of weeks, I hear.
“We are restructuring various operations at CBS as part our ongoing integration with Viacom, and to adapt to changes in our business, including those related to Covid-19,” the company said In a statement via a spokesperson earlier today.
CBS, which also stated, “our thoughts today are with our departing colleagues for their friendship,...
Among those who have been notified today or last night are CBS Entertainment’s Gary Silver, Evp Business Affairs, Edy Mendoza, Svp Comedy Development; Jodi Roth, Svp Specials, Rosemary Tarquinio, Svp Current Programming and Michael Marks, VP Current Programs; as well as and CBS TV Studios’ Matt Skrobalak, Svp Talent & Casting, I have learned. All executives Svp and above have been at CBS for 14+ years. Additionally, Sean Hoagland, VP of Drama Development, CBS Entertainment, was laid off within the past couple of weeks, I hear.
“We are restructuring various operations at CBS as part our ongoing integration with Viacom, and to adapt to changes in our business, including those related to Covid-19,” the company said In a statement via a spokesperson earlier today.
CBS, which also stated, “our thoughts today are with our departing colleagues for their friendship,...
- 5/27/2020
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
ViacomCBS has engaged in another round of layoffs, this time at CBS, as Viacom and CBS continue their post-merger integration as a combined company. The staff reduction includes those at CBS Entertainment, CBS News, CBS Sports, CBS Studios and CBS Television Studios.
“We are restructuring various operations at CBS as part our ongoing integration with Viacom, and to adapt to changes in our business, including those related to Covid-19,” said a CBS spokesperson in a statement. “Our thoughts today are with our departing colleagues for their friendship, service and many important contributions to CBS.”
Among those impacted by the move are vice president of drama development Sean Hoagland, senior vice president of specials Jodi Roth, vice president of current programming Michael Marks, CBS Entertainment’s senior vice president of comedy development Edy Mendoza and executive vice president of business affairs Gary Silver.
ViacomCBS has implemented several rounds of pink slips over the last few months,...
“We are restructuring various operations at CBS as part our ongoing integration with Viacom, and to adapt to changes in our business, including those related to Covid-19,” said a CBS spokesperson in a statement. “Our thoughts today are with our departing colleagues for their friendship, service and many important contributions to CBS.”
Among those impacted by the move are vice president of drama development Sean Hoagland, senior vice president of specials Jodi Roth, vice president of current programming Michael Marks, CBS Entertainment’s senior vice president of comedy development Edy Mendoza and executive vice president of business affairs Gary Silver.
ViacomCBS has implemented several rounds of pink slips over the last few months,...
- 5/27/2020
- by Elaine Low
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive, updated with CBS Statement: ViacomCBS has initiated a new round of post-merger layoffs across all parts of the company, which are impacting primarily the divisions within the CBS Entertainment Group, I have learned. After a couple of CBS Entertainment employees received word Tuesday night, the bulk of the cuts are being made today, I hear. Notifications in New York began this morning.
“We are restructuring various operations at CBS as part our ongoing integration with Viacom, and to adapt to changes in our business, including those related to Covid-19,” a CBS spokesperson said in a statement. “Our thoughts today are with our departing colleagues for their friendship, service and many important contributions to CBS.”
The headcount reductions at the CBS-branded companies come a month after ViacomCBS’ basic cable networks’ saw dozens of exits, including senior executives, led by Smithsonian Networks President Tom Hayden and Sarah Babineau, Head of Comedy Central Content & Creative Enterprises.
“We are restructuring various operations at CBS as part our ongoing integration with Viacom, and to adapt to changes in our business, including those related to Covid-19,” a CBS spokesperson said in a statement. “Our thoughts today are with our departing colleagues for their friendship, service and many important contributions to CBS.”
The headcount reductions at the CBS-branded companies come a month after ViacomCBS’ basic cable networks’ saw dozens of exits, including senior executives, led by Smithsonian Networks President Tom Hayden and Sarah Babineau, Head of Comedy Central Content & Creative Enterprises.
- 5/27/2020
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
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