Scary times. For the first time in two years I'm glad my station is no longer an NBC O&O.
-----Original Message----- >From: Michael King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Dec 5, 2008 12:22 AM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: NBC cutting 500 including Mullen > >The NBC bureau here in Atlanta was supposed to move into our new building >"The Hill" not long after the Olympics. We heard September, then October, >then December. Then, of course, came (and continues) speculation that the >few NBC folks are going to move over to The Weather Channel's HQ up in the >Galleria area. > >But last I heard, NBC still is moving in here (despite the fact that we >don't receive MSNBC in the building (!?)) in "weeks". > >Steve Capus came here about a week and a half before the general election >and swore up and down that they'd move in by mid-December. Then he promptly >went on a visit to TWC's HQ. So who knows.... > >M > >On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 3:19 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >> This is not a total shocker... the truth is, this moment would >> probably have had people finally killing their one- or two-person >> Chicago bureaus but for a certain POTUS-elect. Every national >> correspondent based in Chicago probably breathed a sigh of relief on >> election night. >> >> So people are in trouble in L.A. and in places like Dallas, San >> Francisco, probably New Orleans if there's anyone left there, probably >> Philadelphia if there's anyone left there, Boston, Miami, Denver, >> Atlanta (except CNN)... also, as soon as this latest circus is over, >> certainly Detroit. I would think there's going to be a *lot* of >> shuttering and entire-bureau-closing. >> >> >> >> ====== >> AIM/Gmail Chat: damonbeau :: :: Wealth without work. Pleasure without >> conscience. Science without humanity. Knowledge without character. >> Politics without principle. Commerce without morality. Worship without >> sacrifice. --Gandhi's seven deadly social sins :: :: "The arc of the >> moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice." --King :: :: >> "Any time you have the opportunity to accomplish something and you >> don't, you are wasting your time on this earth." --Roberto Clemente >> >> >> >> On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 15:07, Steve Rhodes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > From TV Newser >> > >> > http://is.gd/adZg >> > >> > Update: Los Angeles correspondents John Larson, who reported for many >> years >> > for Dateline >> > and Mark Mullen, who just returned to Burbank after a nearly two-year >> > reporting run for >> > NBC in Beijing, are among the cuts. >> > >> > A bit longer story also mentions Mark >> > >> > http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/05/business/media/05layoffs.html >> > >> > -- >> > Steve Rhodes >> > >> > http://flickr.com/photos/ari/ photos >> > >> > >> > http://twitter.com/tigerbeat >> > >> > http://del.icio.us/tigerbeat interesting articles & sites >> > >> > >> > http://ari.typepad.com >> > >> > http://tigerbeat.vox.com blogs >> > >> > > >> > >> >> > >> > >> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "World News Now Discussion List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/wnndl?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
