NBC Universal trims 3% of workforce, including theme parks

Posted December 5, 2008, 4:35P | Contributed by Jeff

General Electric Co.'s media and theme park subsidiary, NBC Universal, this week laid off about 500 employees — about 3 percent of its work force of 15,000 — as part of a plan to trim $500 million next year, a person familiar with the situation said Thursday. Several correspondents and other staff were laid off at NBC News. Positions were cut in roughly even proportions across NBC Universal's ad sales, theme parks, movie studio and cable networks.