Channel 4 Staff Brace For Job Cuts D-Day As UK Broadcaster’s Content Teams Set To Learn Fate
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: On Monday, Channel 4 will detail its biggest round of layoffs in 15 years. The British broadcaster is expected to tell its 1,197-strong workforce how it intends to cull around 200 roles, with content teams expected to learn their fate.
Channel 4 is making the cuts – the deepest since the 2008 global financial meltdown – in response to a floundering ad market that shows little sign of improving.
Speculation has been rife about how Channel 4’s commissioners will be impacted by the layoffs and commissioning is expected to be one of the hardest hit areas.
Channel 4 has been seen as having a larger commissioning team than rivals ITV and Channel 5. John McVay, who runs producer trade body Pact, recently told us his “members have often complained that Channel 4 has too many commissioners.” Channel 4 declined to comment on plans for next week.
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