Newspaper conglomerate McClatchy has laid off Kansas City Star classical critic Paul Horsley as part of its latest round of cost-cutting. “I think it was a very ‘corporate’ decision… I think they eliminated the beat they thought they could most easily farm out.” MORE »
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The long-rumored layoffs at the retrenching EMI began today, and employees in both Blue Note and Caroline have apparently been affected; there is also word that there will be further layoffs, at Capitol and Virgin, coming down the pike tomorrow. MORE »
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The long-rumored layoffs at the retrenching EMI began today, and employees in both Blue Note and Caroline have apparently been affected; there is also word that there will be further layoffs, at Capitol and Virgin, coming down the pike tomorrow. MORE »
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EMI is looking at another wave of layoffs in the near-to-immediate future, axing 1,000 jobs as it tries to bring its worldwide headcount down from 4,500 employees to 2,000. MORE »
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EMI is looking at another wave of layoffs in the near-to-immediate future, axing 1,000 jobs as it tries to bring its worldwide headcount down from 4,500 employees to 2,000. MORE »
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EMI is looking at another wave of layoffs in the near-to-immediate future, axing 1,000 jobs as it tries to bring its worldwide headcount down from 4,500 employees to 2,000. MORE »
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TVT Fires Most Of Its Staff, Is Expected To File Chapter 11
Last night, the New York-based label TVT Records fired the bulk of its staff, and it’s expected to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection later this week. TVT, which started in 1985 as a label devoted to bringing the television themes of yore together on the Television’s Greatest Hits compilations, had a roster of artists that at one time included Nine Inch Nails, and currently includes the Polyphonic Spree, Lil Jon, and the Ying Yang Twins. Trouble has been brewing at the label for a while: In 2005 Lil Jon had a public spat with label president Steve Gottlieb (although the two have since reunited, and TVT was supposed to release his forthcoming album Crunk Rock sometime soon), and a few weeks ago, another member of the label’s roster, Pitbull, told his fans that they should download, and not buy, his recent album The Boatlift because Gottlieb didn’t deserve to profit from his work: MORE »
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CBS Radio laid off dozens of employees this week, including on-air personalities and sales managers. Higher-ups in the station’s ranks were also pink-slipped: three program directors in New York City–Crys Quimby at WCBS-AM, Tracy Cloherty at “K-Rock” WXRK and Rick Martini of “Fresh 102.7″… MORE »
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EMI: The Cost-Cutting Continues, This Time In Layoff Form
In its continued quest to save as much money as possible before the market for recorded music completely dries up, EMI will cut “up to 2,000″ jobs from its 5,500-member-strong employment rolls this coming Tuesday. Departments likely to be hardest hit: sales, marketing, distribution, and artist management. The Telegraph is also reporting that the company will “take a more focus group approach” to upcoming releases, quoting sources who are claiming that EMI is currently putting out records while being completely clueless about their appeal to the masses. Have fun figuring out who’s going to survive that edict!
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Perez Hilton is reporting (and oh, you have no idea how much it pains me to type that) that the rumored closing of Geffen is, once the layoff dust clears, going to actually be a merger of Geffen and Interscope, one that was necessitated in part by the rumored $18 million spent on the most recent… MORE »
