12.10.2008 10:57 am
Layoffs at Channel 5
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Rumors were circulating Tuesday that Channel 5 was laying people off. Today, KSDK confirms that three jobs were eliminated: one in sales, one in marketing and a switchboard operator. Newspapers were the focus of Gannett’s October mandate to cut jobs by 10 percent, but some layoffs at Gannett TV stations are also occurring. Channel 5 cites “challenging economic times.”
You may also be interested to hear that this doesn’t include the early retirement packages offered to many over there.
Everyone is crying broke, so they have to lay off people. I realize the economy is bad, but how can a television station who operates 24/7 have a need to layoff. This is getting to be ridiculous.
Pat, it is called advertising revenue…business loses money, cuts ad budget, TV loses revenue..get it?
PAT MITCHELL…the need to lay off is probably due to reduced advertising. If their advertisers cut back…there are fewer $$$ for operations, slaries, etc. And clearly…advertisers are cutting back in almost every medium.
the question becomes did the higher ups refuse any bonus money? I bet they still got all there perks before they laid off those 3 people. It would be nice if all the CEO’s of theses companies not take any of the perks - maybe that way some people may not lose their jobs - but I guess that would be too much like right
Rumor has is that Frank Cusamano’s hairpiece asked for yet another pay raise…guess he’ll have to keep buying those tacky sports coats at Men’s Warehouse
They should not layoff on-air personalities because they think of themselves as “local celebrities” and you’d never see them “stepping down” out of a domestically built vehicle like us “little people”. Then these on-air personalities can still enjoy their lavish multi six figure salaries (maybe even seven figure?) and laugh and crack jokes for us like they’re the best of friends. Their salaries are well deserved. Standing in front of a green screen and reading propaganda from a teleprompter is damn hard work.
Channel 5 lays off three people, and the story is linked from THREE DIFFERENT PLACES on the front page of stltoday.com. All taking the reader to a five-line-long “story.”
No sense of context here….
derotts3, you have no idea what you’re talking about. All media is getting whacked. Companies advertise less, TV and Radio get less money. Not enough money to pay the people. Some people gotta go. Geez, Louise…
why can’t we get a bailout from the goverment there are giving it away to everyone????