Altice the French company owners of News 12 Networks have decided to lay off dozens of employees just before the holidays.

“It was an extremely chaotic day,” says one laid-off staffer of the cuts and how they were handled at the company’s metro New York area news channel.

French multinational telecommunications and mass media company with official headquarters in the Netherlands founded and headed by the French-Israeli billionaire businessman Patrick Drahi, and the second largest telecoms company in France, behind Orange.

Back when the network was owned and operated by Chuck Dolan Cablevision’s billionaire owner- https://www.forbes.com/profile/charles-dolan/?sh=3355603030a5 - I was his first hired news executive to build their first  NYC news channel. From there, I went on to launch AP Television and served as NY Burau Chief until my early retirement.

The News 12 Networks are a group of regional cable news television channels in the New York metropolitan area that are owned by Altice USA. All channels provide rolling news coverage 24 hours a day, focusing primarily on regions of the metro area outside Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island.

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