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HEADLINES: Fox News #1 among cable news nets; layoffs at Jeff Probst Show

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Fox Leads Cable News, CNN Dips
For 2012, Fox News Channel will go down as #1 again, with 2 million average viewers. MSNBC is now in second place and CNN is a distant and struggling third. [MediaDailyNews]

Layoffs On Syndicated Talker ‘Jeff Probst’
In yet another sign that this talker probably won't be around beyond this season, CBS Television Distribution's The Jeff Probst Show is laying off a sizable number of employees - and right before Christmas, too. [Deadline Hollywood]

L.A. Reid: ‘I Will Not Return To The X Factor Next Year’
Count one judge out for next year's edition of The X Factor.  L.A. Reid says he needs to focus on Epic Records, the record company that he says he's had to neglect because of his duties on Simon Cowell's popular Fox reality show. [Access Hollywood]

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The Weather Channel lays off 7% of employees, according to report

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Cuts come as part of restructuring; 75-80 employees said to be affected

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.

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