Will the majority of layoffs happen at Paramount Pictures, Paramount+, CBS, Nickelodeon, MTV, BET, Comedy Central, or somewhere else? What are we thinking?
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@h8 this is accurate and he even has a executive assistant as if he thinks he’s in the C suite, the amount of Pluto and P+ QA empires is astounding compared to other companies
What about the corporate teams ?
@f7 Unless the MTV increases their production volume, they are drastically overstaffed. They have just a handful of shows in production. No new development. I think half the staff will be cut.
I believe the Pluto STE org will be the most impacted, given JO made a career out of hiring and promoting useless Directors and STE Leads.
@ap mtv was gutted 2 years ago and has been running on a skeleton crew don’t let anyone tell you something different I lost a lot of co workers the first big layoff and continued for each one.
What’s difficult to understand? If you work for or with a part of the company that is shrinking you are likely toast…you know, anything cable. If your job is a commodity and can be replicated with AI or someone “cheaper” in Nashville you are toast…think finance, media supply chain, consumer products, PR, marketing, business affairs, legal, ad sales. If you are a remote person who helped build a terrible app in p+ you are out. If you are in tech that keeps the lights, working on erp or corp Ai you may be Ok for a bit. If your dad works for Redbird or kkr you also might be ok.
2500-3000 jobs! Red Wedding
The MTV Networks are still drastically overstaffed for the number of hours actually being produced. If upper management realizes this, it will be a bloodbath there.
@an Will they explore each other’s bodies? Maybe. Maybe not. Who knows?
MTV has not been touched nearly as much in the previous layoffs. I have a feeling maybe this time around they get some big cuts. But this can also be said about most linear. A lot of legacy channels have a ton of PEP employees already.
Everyone. What's left of the company will be 5-6 guys in the C-suite with an LLM. That's the goal anyway.
@ae Considering OP ended their post with “what are we thinking?” I figured it was open to all thoughts and opinions. Everyone else giving their thoughts that it’ll be across the board. My thoughts disagree. Maybe read the actual post next time and realize that we’re all here just giving thoughts. No one knows anything for sure.
@ab What does it matter what you or any of us “think”— we need/want facts or sources, not guesses.
Just trying to separate fact from speculation.
I think a majority of the layoffs (60-65%) will be from TV (CBS, MTV, BET, Etc). Then a smaller percentage from streaming (20-30%). And a tiny percentage from theatrical (10%).
All sektors. No mercy with only rare content people want available
Across the board. Period.
I think it will be a blood bath all around if I’m being honest.