Lituchy exits in UPN trim
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Roughly 20% of UPN's 110-member staff is expected to receive a pinkslip or accept a contract buyout once the layoffs are complete. So far, Lituchy is the highest-ranking exec to be affected by the reductions; at least one VP has either been laid off or decided to ankle in UPN's marketing, sales and media relations departments.
As part of the restructuring, UPN is closing its Chicago sales office, and at least six sales department employees will be leaving. Five marketing staffers have been let go so far, while three people are exiting research and four will leave media relations.
Contracted employees are being offered 100% of their remaining contract in exchange for ankling. Those without pacts will be given two weeks of salary for every year they've been at the 6-year-old net.
News comes following the decision to have all UPN department heads report to their CBS counterparts.
No word yet on any changes in the programming departments of UPN. Those may not come until new UPN Entertainment prexy Dawn Tarnofsky-Ostroff settles into her job.
