WNJU-47 spokeswoman Anna Carbonell confirmed 8 news positions were eliminated, “but no anchors or reporters were affected.” Another 7 station jobs were also cut.
According to Anna, “due to the economic environment and its continued downtrend, we were forced to reevaluate all our operations across the board and make some tough calls.” They included the layoffs as well as the cancelation of the weekday morning and noon newscasts and the 6 pm edition of our weekend news. The 11 pm weekend newscast has been reformatted “to review the top stories of that week.”