Altice Lays Off Up To 40 At News 12
“It was an extremely chaotic day,” says one laid-off staffer of the cuts and how they were handled at the company’s metro New York area news channel.
Note this round of layoffs affect the New York Area outlet News 12 owned by Altice.
“I knew I was getting whacked.”
So says one of at least 30 staffers who were laid off Monday morning by News 12, the troubled network owned by Altice consisting of seven cable channels and a streaming channel that serve the New York Metropolitan Area.
The worker, who says he has 30 years of experience in TV news, and spent many of them with News 12, says last week a manager told him that, in spite of recent shifts in responsibilities, his job was
secure. But yesterday, while engaged in another new task that did not fall into his original job description, he was suddenly called into his station’s main office.