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ESPN Layoffs Begin, And Some 100 Employees May Lose Jobs

The cuts have already hit some well-known names, including veteran NFL reporter Ed Werder, college football analyst Danny Kanell and college basketball reporter C.L. Brown.
ESPN has been facing a slump in revenue that's most easily traced to cord-cutting by former cable subscribers.

Reporters and on-air personalities are among the roughly 100 ESPN employees who are expected to lose their jobs this week, in a cost-cutting move at the network that has lost millions of subscribers in recent years.

The cuts have already hit some, college football analyst , and college basketball reporter , along with NHL columnist .

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