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This is so dissapointing, I like TechTV and watch it almost everyday, very neat stuff re computers and software 
That's too bad, shame on Comcast!!!!!!!!!
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Comcast fires the entire TechTV staff
Posted 05/06/2004 @ 7:33 PM, by Ken "Caesar" Fisher
At the end of March Comcast announced that it had purchased TechTV from Paul Allen's Vulcan Ventures in order to strengthen the channel and fold it in with their own, largely ignored gaming channel, G4. The future of TechTV was uncertain, but hopeful. Now it appears that Comcast may be planning to gut the network, as they've given the entire staff their mandatory 60-days notice in compliance with the WARN act. News of the notice first showed up in the forums at Leoville and was confirmed shortly thereafter by Leo Laporte, longtime TechTV star (if you can call it that) and member of the cast of The Screensavers and Call for Help.
Such a mass firing is unexpected but not unprecedented. In acquisition scenarios, companies often "fire" their new employees to invalidate their old contracts only to rehire them under new terms. This situation appears more drastic, although the company is still free to resign anyone they please. Still. Comcast and LA-based G4 Media plan to completely shut down the San Francisco office where the show was based, making the prospect of many rehires unlikely. Of the 300+ jobs at TechTV, Laporte says that 100 of them will be "posted." While I've never really watched TechTV (Comcast made it difficult to get when I was with them), many of you do, and you may want to consider dropping G4 Media a line if you're concerned about the future of TectTV's content.
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That's too bad, shame on Comcast!!!!!!!!!
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Comcast fires the entire TechTV staff
Posted 05/06/2004 @ 7:33 PM, by Ken "Caesar" Fisher
At the end of March Comcast announced that it had purchased TechTV from Paul Allen's Vulcan Ventures in order to strengthen the channel and fold it in with their own, largely ignored gaming channel, G4. The future of TechTV was uncertain, but hopeful. Now it appears that Comcast may be planning to gut the network, as they've given the entire staff their mandatory 60-days notice in compliance with the WARN act. News of the notice first showed up in the forums at Leoville and was confirmed shortly thereafter by Leo Laporte, longtime TechTV star (if you can call it that) and member of the cast of The Screensavers and Call for Help.
Such a mass firing is unexpected but not unprecedented. In acquisition scenarios, companies often "fire" their new employees to invalidate their old contracts only to rehire them under new terms. This situation appears more drastic, although the company is still free to resign anyone they please. Still. Comcast and LA-based G4 Media plan to completely shut down the San Francisco office where the show was based, making the prospect of many rehires unlikely. Of the 300+ jobs at TechTV, Laporte says that 100 of them will be "posted." While I've never really watched TechTV (Comcast made it difficult to get when I was with them), many of you do, and you may want to consider dropping G4 Media a line if you're concerned about the future of TectTV's content.
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