The Walt Disney Co. is cutting hundreds of jobs across the company as it continues a corporate streamlining that began in earnest earlier this year.
Some corporate functions, ESPN, Disney Entertainment Television and film studios are all expected to be impacted, with Pixar said to be the film studio seeing the most cuts, and Nat Geo most heavily impacted at DET, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
Pixar has released two films this year: The original film Hoppers, and Toy Story 5, which is among the biggest movies of the year so far.
The cuts also include some notable on-air talent at ESPN, including longtime SportsCenter anchor and Baseball Tonight host Karl Ravech, who has been with the channel since 1993, and Ryan Clark, a former NFL player who has been an analyst for the channel’s football coverage for over a decade.
That being said, most of the layoffs at ESPN are behind-the-scenes staff, connected to its acquisition of the NFL network earlier this year.
