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TechTV To Be Gutted, Employees Sacked







TechTV To Be Gutted, Employees Sacked

TechTV To Be Gutted, Employees Sacked 05/07/2004 07:51 AM

Whoa, it looks like Comcast might be putting the entire staff of TechTV off the job, according to this update at Ars Technica. While Comcast had stated their intentions to roll TechTV into the G4 gaming network, it wasn't clear they were going to gut the network to do it--a...




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