OWN Lays Off 30

Discovery joint venture with Oprah axes staffers post-'Rosie' cancellation

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Seems like the Oprah Winfrey Network just can't catch a break: after Friday's announcement that The Rosie Show wouldn't be coming back to the network after a low-rated first season, OWN is restructuring. Thirty staffers are being laid off, with their duties redistributed throughout the the network and the two partners in the joint venture cabler—Discovery Communications and Oprah's own Harpo Studios.

Discovery will put Neal Kirsch, its CFO of U.S. networks, into the position of COO and CFO at OWN, below Winfrey and reporting to Sheri Salata and Erik Logan—the two Harpo execs installed by Winfrey when she took over as CEO of the network.

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