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Posted in industry | music on February 13, 2007

MTV & VH1 are firing people

* Billboard - MTV To Slash Staff?
* Gawker - Breaking: Entire VH1 Classics Department Axed
* Gawker - Happy Firing Day, MTV Kids
* Gawker - MTV Layoffs: Half As Bad As Expected (Still Bad Though)
* Gawker - Irresponsible Rumormongering: Bloodletting at MTV Imminent

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Posted on February 13, 2007 2:17 PM

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Supposed leaked lineup for Bonnaroo:

The Police • Tool • Widespread Panic • The White Stripes • Ben Harper & the Innocent Criminals • Flaming Lips • Wilco • Manu Chao • The String Cheese Incident • Franz Ferdinand • Bob Weir & Ratdog • Damien Rice • Ween • The Roots • Gov’t Mule • Ziggy Marley & the Melody Makers • The Decemberists • Kings of
Leon • Spearhead • Wolfmother • Regina Spektor • The Black Keys • DJ Shadow • Gillian Welch & David Rawlings • Spoon • Keller Williams • Sasha & Digweed
• STS9 • Old Crow Medicine Show • The Hold Steady • Galactic • Lily Allen • North Mississippi Allstars • Fountains Of Wayne • Hot Tuna • Feist • Hot Chip
• John Butler Trio • Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys • Aesop Rock • The Richard Thompson Band • Xavier Rudd • Tortoise • T-Bone Burnett • Mavis
Staples • Clutch • Cold War Kids • Paolo Nutini • Brazilian Girls • RX Bandits • The Slip • Girl Talk • Railroad Earth • Martha Wainright • Rodrigo y Gabriela
• Annuals • Tea Leaf Green • Sam Roberts Band • Elvis Perkins in Dearland • Charlie Louven • Sonya Kitchell • Apollo Sunshine • Ryan Shaw • Uncle Earl
• The National • The Little Ones •

Posted by Anonymous | February 13, 2007 2:30 PM

wo cares?
both those channels suck.
they should fire everyone.
shut the whole thing down

Posted by soup monster | February 13, 2007 3:57 PM

working for MTV is a joke

Posted by Anonymous | February 13, 2007 5:25 PM

depends on where you work. the programming sucks. of course it does. but there a lot of hardworking people, and it sucks that because the big wigs are idiots and drop the ball, the little people get screwed. but i guess that's the way it always is.

Posted by Anonymous | February 14, 2007 10:19 AM

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