NBC Cuts Hit Telemundo

NBC CUTS HIT TELEMUNDO
[SOURCE: Broadcasting&Cable, AUTHOR: Allison Romano]
As part of NBC's plan to cut 700 jobs and save $750 million, the corporation is overhauling local news at a half dozen of its Telemundo stations. NBC-owned outlets in San Jose, Calif., Houston, Dallas-Ft. Worth, San Antonio, Phoenix, and Tucson, Ariz., will shutter local news operations and take one of three regionalized feeds for early-evening and late news from the new Telemundo Production Center. The stations will still be able to insert stories from reporters in their markets. NBC says the changes will improve efficiency and news quality. But critics feel that centralized news operations run the risk of homogenizing the product in an already underserved Hispanic market. Under the plan, newsrooms in six markets will be downsized into bureaus. Remaining reporters and photographers will contribute stories and cut-ins to the newscasts, and a number of jobs will be eliminated. NBC, which owns 15 Telemundo stations, will say only that the cuts represent 5% of the network's workforce, but they're expected to include on-air talent, producers and technical operators.
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