MTV Networks Hiding News Of Layoffs

COMMENTS (14)

• They already let 50 people go in Germany and shut down Comedy Central which started with big ambitions 1 1/2 years ago. It will soon air during the evening and night hours on Nickelodeon and most of its original programming was cancelled except for one stand-up comedy show. On MTV Germany they cancelled the news and some music shows and they cut back on TRL and another similar program called “Viva Live”. This news was kind of surprising after the MTV Networks announced last year that their music networks MTV and VIVA as well as Nick are profitable. I wonder why they now have to cut back so drastically.

  Comment by John — Friday October 31, 2008 @ 2:24pm PDT  Reply to this post

• People are running scared over there… especially VH1 and Nick. Heard the layoffs where supposed to be a few weeks ago but Phillipe said the proposed cuts weren’t substantial enough. He told them to cut a lot more.

  Comment by from where i'm sitting — Friday October 31, 2008 @ 2:53pm PDT  Reply to this post

• If it wasn’t for all the lost jobs I’d say shut down the crap already. Or at least rename MTV to something that suits what the station has become. But “Cheap-reality-nonsense-with-the-dumness-of-the-day-looking-for-love”-TV would probably be too long.

  Comment by Jokelyin — Friday October 31, 2008 @ 3:25pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Garbage in, garbage out, indeed. They have come down to lowest common denominator programming for all but the youngest children.

  I interned and freelanced for Nick in college…but content-wise these days, it’s in the toilet. I won’t let my daughter watch it at all…why would you? When you’ve got safer, perfectly cute/funny stuff on Disney and have to expose your kids to commercials for junk (other than Disney stuff).

  Comment by Liz — Saturday November 1, 2008 @ 2:23pm PDT  Reply to this post

• so who cares if their programming is bad or MTV is not what it used to be.. There are people attached to that bad programming and I am sure that you wouldn’t want anyone that you care about losing their job in times like this…

  think about it!

  Comment by so what? — Saturday November 1, 2008 @ 9:18pm PDT  Reply to this post

• I WANT MY TOM FRESTON

  Comment by Frank — Saturday November 1, 2008 @ 9:39pm PDT  Reply to this post

• MTV is finished, They need to get rid of it altogether. BORING.

  Comment by IWORKMTV — Sunday November 2, 2008 @ 5:42pm PST  Reply to this post

• Bring Back Celebrity Deathmatch…Quick!!!

  Comment by John Harber — Sunday November 2, 2008 @ 11:27pm PST  Reply to this post

• last good show on MTV was Sifl and Olly, an absurd sock puppet that deserved to be on a better network like Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim, unfortunately for them that did not exist yet.

  Disney right now is putting out the new music, Jonas Bros, Hannah Montana and all the HSM related stuff. We saw that with the VMA’s, Brand’s anti-promise ring rant was just a lame desperate attempt for the show to look “edgy” with all the Disney related acts getting awards.

  Comment by GTBurns — Monday November 3, 2008 @ 11:10am PST  Reply to this post

• True MTV is done for. The channel that all the young ones are flocking to watch is FUSE. I’ve seen FUSE and MTV can’t play catch up with it. Now why would VIACOM hide MTV layoffs? it doesn’t make sense. Could VH1 be next on the chopping block?

  Comment by chuck — Tuesday November 4, 2008 @ 9:02am PST  Reply to this post

• MTV covering up the laying off of staff?! It’s not like the producer of “The Hills” and “Paris Hilton’s My New BFF” to play fast and loose with the truth!

  Comment by steve — Tuesday November 4, 2008 @ 11:43am PST  Reply to this post

• Nickelodeon is a cheap, lowest denominator animation sewage facility that is populated by smarmy, cynical pigs that make insulting, uncreative garbage for children. Who cares if it or MTV take a dive? Those people who work there should be ashamed of themselves.

  Comment by Liono — Friday November 7, 2008 @ 3:33pm PST  Reply to this post

• thanks…there are a ton of talent people over here!

  i work for mtv and i’m proud of it!

  Comment by thanks — Friday December 5, 2008 @ 8:49am PST  Reply to this post

• Personally, I say dump all that misc. stuff and take it back to it’s beginnings. Music videos! 24 hours a day, seven days a week. That is when it was really good. and not the same boring top 20 crap all the time either. Lots and lots of alternative and unheard of stuff.

  Comment by Thomas — Monday February 23, 2009 @ 3:45am PST  Reply to this post