Layoffs precede TV Guide sale
From Times Wire Services
TV Guide has laid off its top editor and other senior staff members just before the sale of the magazine’s parent company is completed.
Editor in chief Ian Birch was among those fired after shareholders of Gemstar-TV Guide International Inc. approved the sale to Macrovision Corp.
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