Circle City's WRTV Buyout: Staff Layoffs & Seamless Transition
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Circle City Broadcastings $83M Buyout of WRTV: A Sudden Shift
Circle City Broadcastings acquisition of WRTV from E.W. Scripps for $83M led to a wave of layoffs, affecting nearly all of the stations 60 newsroom staff on March 31st. Despite the shock, the team managed to complete their shifts, with former executive producer Lydia Williams describing the process as alphabetical, one-by-one deliveries of stay or severance news. Circle City now owns three Indy stations, including WRTV, WISH, and WNDY, with WISH staff quickly filling WRTVs slots. While the company promises more local news in the future, viewers currently see familiar faces from the sister station keeping things running as the stations future remains uncertain.
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