Two sources confirm to me tonight that CurrentTV, Al Gore’s bold venture into user-generated-content (UGC) for TV, is going to announce layoffs Tuesday in both its San Francisco and Los Angeles offices.
According to these sources, the company’s top-level execs spent the weekend discussing which staffers to lay off. Apparently, there is tension between the northern office, which houses both the senior management group and the post-production staff, and the southern-based studio and ad sales units.
(So what else is new? Every media organization I’ve ever worked in has had tension between its SF and the LA bureaus. This is California, after all.)
As part of the impending transition at CurrentTV, one source says the company is going to drop its shorter UGC videos in favor of the more traditional 30 minute programs that have long dominated television programming across all channels.
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