KUTV SLC Slashes a Dozen
Four Points Media’s KUTV has laid off between 10 and 15, reports the Salt Lake Tribune, as advertising revenues continue to skid. Around 184 people work at the station, a CBS affiliate.
"It’s a tough economy out there right now and it is kind of adjusting to the pressures of that," General Manager David Phillips told the paper.
A former CBS-owned station, KUTV was grabbed by Four Points earlier this year. KUTV won the total day ratings contest in May and is a strong news station, winning a tight morning race, taking the 5 p.m. crown and trailing KSL by a narrow margin in late news.
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Michael Malone is content director at B+C and Multichannel News. He joined B+C in 2005 and has covered network programming, including entertainment, news and sports on broadcast, cable and streaming; and local broadcast television, including writing the "Local News Close-Up" market profiles. He also hosted the podcasts "Busted Pilot" and "Series Business." His journalism has also appeared in The New York Times, The L.A. Times, The Boston Globe and New York magazine.