Staffs pay price for big-ticket mergers. (media industry consolidation)

Broadcasting & Cable, September, 1996 by McClellan, Steve

Layoffs follow skyrocketing radio, TV mergers Chhun Thy Lim has survived many struggles, but last week he became one of the media industry's latest victims of consolidation. Lim endured the repressive Khmer Rouge political regime in his native Cambodia and, when he fled in the 1970s, survived the boat trip away from that country.

So far he has survived kidney disease, which requires him to be on a dialysis machine three times a week, as he awaits a donor for a transplant. But last week, Lim's career as an accountant at the business office of Capital Cities/ABC's broadcast operations and engineering (BOE) office came to an end when he received his layoff notice, One colleague called the network's action "inhuman," especially in light of Lira's decision to...

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