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NBC Universal laying off 500 employees


December 04, 2008 Further cuts at NBC News and elsewhere around NBC Universal were carried out Thursday, including layoffs in the Dallas and Burbank bureaus. There were somewhere under 80 positions cut at CNBC as well as the idling of the primetime show "The Big Idea With Donny Deutsch." Deutsch will remain with the network to do monthly specials and longform programming like "The Entrepreneur" and "Collaboration" as well as appear periodically on NBC's "Today."

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