Altice USA is a broadband communications and video services provider that operates the Optimum and Suddenlink brands, offering cable, internet, voice, WiFi and advertising services to residential and business customers across the United States. The company focuses on high-speed broadband access, content distribution and advertising solutions.
Parent company Altice USA has dismantled standalone News 12 operations in the Bronx, Brooklyn, the Hudson Valley and Connecticut, resulting in sweeping layoffs across those local newsrooms. The cuts eliminated "dozens" of jobs; the article reports at least three dozen people were let go, with one employee counting 26 on a layoff call covering the Bronx and Brooklyn and at least six more cut in Westchester. Remaining newscasts will be consolidated into a single regional broadcast with brief localized segments, and reporters kept on will be expected to shoot and edit their own stories. This is the third major round of News 12 cuts under Altice's ownership, following roughly 70 layoffs in 2017 and another 30–40 positions cut in late 2023; an Altice spokesperson framed the move as an evolution of local journalism.
News 12, the local news network owned by Altice, is cutting back its Connecticut newsroom as part of layoffs. The reductions affect the News 12 Connecticut staff and will scale back local news coverage, though the article does not specify an exact number of employees impacted or precise dates for the cuts. The move is part of broader cost-cutting and newsroom consolidations at the network; Altice representatives declined to provide detailed numbers. The story places the changes in the context of ongoing media industry restructuring and local newsroom contractions.
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