{"id":569047,"date":"2026-04-07T03:15:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T03:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/569047\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T03:15:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T03:15:07","slug":"layoffs-are-coming-for-espn-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/569047\/","title":{"rendered":"Layoffs are coming for ESPN, again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A week after ESPN absorbed most of NFL Network\u2019s employees, the four-letter network will be tightening the corporate belt.<\/p>\n<p>John Ourand of Puck reports that <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/puck.news\/newsletters\/the-varsity\/?utm_campaign=The+Varsity+-+SUBSCRIBERS+%284%2F6%2F26%29&amp;utm_content=The+Varsity+-+SUBSCRIBERS+%284%2F6%2F26%29&amp;utm_medium=email_action&amp;utm_source=customer.io&amp;utm_term=f6c6060e9bb201bc831b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">layoffs are coming for Bristol, again<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ourand explains that the reductions are unrelated to the recent media merger with the NFL. Instead, it\u2019s a result of ongoing cord-cutting, the possibility that ESPN will be spun off from Disney, and the financial impact of last year\u2019s 15-day dispute with YouTube TV, which ultimately came with a price tag of $100 million.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, ESPN will soon be asked to pay its new 10-percent limited partner (the NFL) more than the $2.7 billion per year that\u2019s currently being shelled out for Monday Night Football.<\/p>\n<p>The good news, if there is any when it comes to layoffs, is that as few as 30 jobs will be impacted in the upcoming round, mainly in off-camera jobs. Six years ago, ESPN cut 300 jobs.<\/p>\n<p>Still, the only constant in the current media climate is change. And more changes are coming for ESPN.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A week after ESPN absorbed most of NFL Network\u2019s employees, the four-letter network will be tightening the corporate&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":569048,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-569047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=569047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/569048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}