Pink Slips For 20 'Tonight' Show Staffers; Leno Gets Pay Cut
Deadline.com, Monday, August 20, 2012 3:45 PM
Twenty staffers lost their jobs at NBC's "The Tonight Show," and host Jay Leno took what some said was a "tremendous" pay cut to help prevent more layoffs. This was probably the most high-profile pink-slipped event "in a string of layoffs and budget-trimming at NBC," writes Nellie Andreeva. "Insiders say that virtually every department of the network has been affected by the wave of company-wide cost-cutting, which started in January."
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