Posted:
14:36:15 on January 30 2002
By: Alexander Chase
Dept: General Star Trek
Variety and Reuters are reporting that UPN is cutting staff by 20%, including a senior vice-president. The cut backs are related to UPN's recent merger with CBS.
"Roughly 20% of UPN's 110-member staff is expected to receive a pinkslip or accept a contract buyout once the layoffs are complete. So far, (Todd) Lituchy (UPN's senior VP of scheduling and acquisitions) is the highest-ranking exec to be affected by the reductions; at least one VP has either been laid off or decided to ankle in UPN's marketing, sales and media relations departments... As part of the restructuring, UPN is closing its Chicago sales office, and at least six sales department employees will be leaving. Five marketing staffers have been let go so far, while three people are exiting research and four will leave media relations... News comes following the decision to have all UPN department heads report to their CBS counterparts."
There is still no news on any changes in programming of UPN and this information may not be available until new UPN Entertainment President Dawn Tarnofsky-Ostroff settles into her position.
For those with subscriptions to Variety, check out this page to read the original report.
All others, check out this page.
