The Tonight Show Cuts 20 Staffers
Nikki Finke of Deadline Hollywood reported late Friday The Tonight Show lost at least 20 employees while host Jay Leno took a major paycut to save as many jobs as possible as part of a “downsizing.”
According to Deadline’s NBC insider, the layoffs have to do more with Comcast than the ratings:
“I don’t think ad sales are off. I just think the people who bought this company, Comcast, wants to go through everything at NBC and get their money back,” an NBC insider tells me.
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