November 22, 2024
Two days after Paramount Global announced a record-high audience for the Super Bowl, the entertainment giant announced that it is cutting 800 jobs. According to CNBC the layoffs amount to 3 percent of Paramount Global's overall workforce, which stood at 24,500 at the end of 2022. “These adjustments will help...

Two days after Paramount Global announced a record-high audience for the Super Bowl, the entertainment giant announced that it is cutting 800 jobs.

According to CNBC the layoffs amount to 3 percent of Paramount Global’s overall workforce, which stood at 24,500 at the end of 2022.

“These adjustments will help enable us to build on our momentum and execute our strategic vision for the year ahead — and I firmly believe we have much to be excited about,” Bob Bakish, Paramount’s top executive, said in a note to employees.

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Paramount Global owns CBS, Paramount Pictures, Pluto TV, Paramount+, Nickelodeon, BET and Comedy Central.

According to the New York Post, CBS will be hit with 20 cuts out of its 2,000 employees, including award-winning senior correspondent Catherine Herridge.

Herridge, who is currently involved in a lawsuit in which she is refusing to divulge the sources of a 2017 report from the days she worked at Fox News, covered national security for CBS.

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The Post said Herridge was on the outs with CBS News President Ingrid Ciprian-Matthews.

The Post report said the CBS Washington office took most of the cuts, which included correspondent Jeff Pegues.

The Post report quoted a source it did not name as saying that Pegues had been investigated by CBS over allegations of “lashing out” and “bullying” younger female reporters who “outworked” him.

The Post quoted a source saying Ciprian-Matthews “got rid of her enemies under the guise of budget cuts. She cleared the deck, and she had to sacrifice some others like Pegues.”

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Other CBS reporters being let go are Christina Ruffini, a political correspondent, and Pamela Falk, a correspondent covering the United Nations based in New York, the Post reported it was told by sources it did not name.

Paramount’s Super Bowl coverage broke records as 123.4 million viewers watched the Kansas City Chiefs defeat the San Francisco 49ers, combining those who watched it on CBS, Paramount+, Nickelodeon, Univision, and CBS Sports, and NFL digital properties, including NFL+, according to The Hill.

The Los Angeles Times reported that Shari Redstone, Paramount Global’s controlling shareholder, has been eyeing a possible sale or merger.

The report listed Skydance Media and Warner Bros. Discovery as possible media companies interested in Paramount Global.


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