MTV Hit Hard By Viacom Layoffs
More information about the bloodbath that took place over at Viacom yesterday — to the tune of 850 layoffs — is beginning to trickle down. We heard a rumor from an insider yesterday who said that most of the MTV News department had been let go, which appears to concur with an L.A. Times report that the “deepest cuts” came from MTV Newtworks.
MTV Networks, which includes cable channels MTV, Nickelodeon, VH1, and Comedy Central. Viacom’s Hollywood movie studio, Paramount Pictures, let go 140 employees — 100 in the U.S.
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