Another week, another round of lay-offs. This time ReelzChannel has dropped more than 40 people from its Los Angeles studio and cancelled its signature show, “Dailies,” reports ContentAgenda. CBS Interative joined the fray as well, passing-out pink slips at its various entities including CNET, CBS.com, CBSNews,com, CBSSports.com, BNET, GameSpot, TV.com, last.fm, and CHOW. Though CBS would not report the actual number, TechCrunch puts it at about 275.
In addition, OnlineMediaDaily reports that Digitas, the digital unit of Publicis Groupe, is laying off 2% of its approximately 2,100 employees in the U.S. Meanwhile NPR is laying-off about 7% of its staff or 64 employees and cancelling two programs, reports PaidContent. And, Netflix has let go of 50 customer service techs, citing the better customer experience of using Silverlight to stream its movies, reports DigitalMediaWire.
PaidContent also reported that Major League Advanced Media let go of 20 employees this week while DivX cut 21 people, reports TechCrunch.
The big news in digital media came from Yahoo which laid-off about 1,500 workers and shut 6 European offices. The PaidContent article is here. Though Sony topped it with 8,000 pink slips in its electronics workforce, as reported in DigitalMediaWire.
Meanwhile TechCrunch reports that total tech lay-offs have topped 100,000.
