{"id":2722,"date":"2008-11-24T14:54:51","date_gmt":"2008-11-24T22:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=2722"},"modified":"2008-11-24T21:37:05","modified_gmt":"2008-11-25T05:37:05","slug":"wasserman-whacks-away-at-sportnet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=2722","title":{"rendered":"Wasserman Whacks Away At Sportnet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many in the action sport media business have been asking what <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wmgllc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wasserman Media Group<\/a><\/strong> was doing spending so much money on their <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sportnet.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sportnet<\/a><\/strong> property. It appears someone inside the company asked the same question and answered by cutting 41 percent of the staff.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Twenty-eight of the group\u2019s 68 employees were laid off late Friday, including <strong>Gabe Huerta<\/strong>, VP-product development, and a number of others from product development and support.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>An email to <strong>Luke McDonough<\/strong>, the former president of <strong>Studio 411<\/strong> was returned with the following message: As of November 21st 2008, Luke McDonough is no longer an employee at Wasserman Media Group\/Sportnet.&#8221; And the recently launched <strong>Snowboarder.com<\/strong> has cut recently hired editor <strong>James Sullivan<\/strong> and is reportedly being run by a &#8220;project manager&#8221; at the company.<\/p>\n<p>Some would say it was only a matter of time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.paidcontent.org\/entry\/419-wasserman-cuts-41-percent-of-sportnet-staff-to-rationalize-business-cut\/\" target=\"_blank\">Paid Content<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many in the action sport media business have been asking what Wasserman Media Group was doing spending so much money on their Sportnet property. It appears someone inside the company asked the same question and answered by cutting 41 percent of the staff. Twenty-eight of the group\u2019s 68 employees were laid off late Friday, including [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3,4,6,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2722"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2722"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2745,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2722\/revisions\/2745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}