Comcast Corp's NBCUniversal entertainment unit is laying off about 500 employees at cable channels, Jay Leno's late-night TV show and the Universal Pictures movie studio, a person with knowledge of the matter said on Monday.
The cuts add up to about 1.5 percent of the company's workforce of 30,000 employees, the source said.
A large portion of the layoffs occurred at the G4 cable channel, a network about video games and the gaming culture, the source said. Two of the network's shows were recently canceled.
Other layoffs occurred about two months ago at "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno," which cut about two dozen crew members.
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