Gore's Current TV cuts 80 workers, shifts programming

Psephos

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Thu Nov-12-09 11:06 AM
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Gore's Current TV cuts 80 workers, shifts programming

Source: San Francisco Chronicle

Current TV, the San Francisco cable and Internet video channel co-founded by former Vice President Al Gore, on Wednesday cut 80 workers and announced a big shift in its programing strategy.

Current Media Inc. said the company is moving Current TV away from daily in-house production of short-form programs and toward programs presented in more industry-standard 30- and 60-minute formats.

The cutbacks come even as Current Media expects its most profitable year.

"This is less about an exercise in cost-cutting and more about a strategic realignment of our programming,'' Chief Operating Officer Joanna Drake Earl said in an interview.

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Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/techchron/detail?entry_id=51482&tsp=1

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WriteDown

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Thu Nov-12-09 11:07 AM
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1. I think I've been layed off in the past using these exact same words...

"This is less about an exercise in cost-cutting and more about a strategic realignment of our programming"

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road2000

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Thu Nov-12-09 11:39 AM
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4. You said it.

Substitute "business" for "programming." That's what I heard two weeks ago when ten percent of our workforce was laid off -- myself among them.

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doc03

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Thu Nov-12-09 11:25 AM
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2. Instead of downsizing at our plant they

called it right sizing. Sounds better doesn't it?

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WriteDown

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Thu Nov-12-09 11:36 AM
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3. The term "rightsizing" has been around forever...

I can probably think of a few others as well.

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robcon

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Thu Nov-12-09 11:41 AM
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5. In England and Ireland, you are "made redundant"

They don't call them firings, they call them "redundancies" there.

Euphemisms abound.

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doc03

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Thu Nov-12-09 11:45 AM
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6. I like that, those English have a way with the American

Edited on Thu Nov-12-09 11:46 AM by doc03

language don't they? So I am laid off now, what is that called over there, temporary redundancy? How about unscheduled work break?

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The Sushi Bandit

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Thu Nov-12-09 02:39 PM
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7. Since we are on the subject...Visit My Current TV Page!

http://current.com/users/SushiBandit.htm

I am proud to say that 17 of my stories have been picked to be aired in Current TV over the last few years.
I watch it every day!

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David Zephyr

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Thu Nov-12-09 11:21 PM
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8. It's everywhere folks. The economy is really sick.

Obama needs to focus on:

Getting jobs and out of Afghanistan or we will lose big in 2010.

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