Deadline reports that 140 Disney Entertainment Television employees, including 13% of the National Geographic staff, have been laid off.

Disney Entertainment Television Layoffs

Disney Entertainment Television has laid off 140 employees as the company continues to work toward its goal of $7.5 billion in cost reductions, announced last year. The hardest-hit brand was National Geographic, which saw 60 employees laid off. That equates to 13% of the brand’s workforce.

Aside from National Geographic, other impacted divisions were ABC Owned Television Stations, Freeform, the operational side of the Disney linear entertainment networks, Unscripted, Marketing, and Publicity. Disney has not announced the elimination of any teams at this time. Nearly half of the jobs lost were in Burbank, California, home to Disney Studios.

These layoffs were announced months ago but just went into effect today. They closely follow mass layoffs that occurred in May and led to Pixar firing 175 employees — equivalent to 14% of the animation studio’s workforce.

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