BUSINESS
September 18, 1998 | Bloomberg News
NBC confirmed that the network, owned by General Electric Co., plans to eliminate as many as 300 jobs, or 5% of its work force, to cut costs. NBC now has about 6,500 employees. Cuts will be made "across the board," though nonprogramming divisions, such as finance and other back-office functions, will be hit harder, said spokeswoman Cassie Kantor, who declined to comment on how much the reductions are expected to save the network.
ENTERTAINMENT
May 16, 1991 | JANE HALL, TIMES STAFF WRITER
Joan Snyder is packing up 29 years' worth of memories at CBS News. Reporter's spiral notebooks, old photos (a dark-haired Snyder on assignment in a 1960s miniskirt), letters from viewers on stories that affected their lives--it all spills out of drawers into cardboard boxes in an oddly quiet corridor of offices at CBS' "Sunday Morning." "This whole place feels quiet," said Snyder, who has worked as a producer for "Sunday Morning" since 1987.
BUSINESS
January 13, 2001 | JENNIFER LAIDLAW, REUTERS
The softer advertising environment is taking its toll on some of America's major television networks, with layoffs and hiring freezes at some top TV companies growing. U.S. television network NBC, home of top-ranked TV shows such as "Friends" and "Frasier," said Friday it will lay off 280 to 560 people, or 5% to 10% of its 5,600 workers, in the quarter as it seeks to cut costs in the wake of a slowing economy, which has hurt advertising demand.