In the Wake of a Reorg, NBCU Lays Off Ad Sales Staff

Conglomerate will cut staff by 3.5 percent

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Just three weeks after reorganizing its ad sales staff under five direct reports to Linda Yaccarino, NBCUniversal has begun laying off staffers. At the time of the original announcement, NBCU said in no uncertain terms that no one in the sales organization would be leaving the company; that said, a source chose to characterize today’s layoffs as “unforeseen.”

Variety broke news of the cuts earlier today; as a direct result of a number of redundancies created by the reorg, about 3.5

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