Super Bowl Update

TVNewser is reporting that The Weather Channel has let go approximately 7% of its workforce as part of a restructuring effort.

The move is estimated to have affected between 75 and 80 people.

“In late September we began an effort to reorganize of our company into business units based around our customers and the products and services we create and deliver to them,” TWC said in a statement. “With these organizational changes and our new structure, we are better positioned for future growth.”

TWC has been in the news recently for the departures of longtime meteorologists Adam Berg and Jeff Morrow, and then for its plans to begin naming winter storms, much as tropical storms are named.  That idea hasn't exactly been well-received (despite TWC's assertions to the contrary), particularly among TV meteorologists who feel the move might have worked better had it come as a collaboration with the National Weather Service and other companies like AccuWeather.

The layoffs are the first since 2008 at TWC.  Late that year, after NBCUniversal and private equity firsm Blackstone Group and Bain Capital bought controlling interest in the network, jobs were also eliminated.