{"id":4246,"date":"2014-04-14T05:06:45","date_gmt":"2014-04-14T05:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2014\/04\/14\/universal-music-group-cutting-east-coast-staff\/"},"modified":"2014-04-14T05:06:45","modified_gmt":"2014-04-14T05:06:45","slug":"universal-music-group-cutting-east-coast-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2014\/04\/14\/universal-music-group-cutting-east-coast-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"Universal Music Group Cutting East Coast Staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/m.cdn.blog.hu\/mu\/muzzak\/image\/20080901\/universal-music.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"219\" height=\"131\" \/><br \/>With the splitting up of the Island Def Jam Music Group into three  labels, the Universal Music Group is recalibrating the staffing at its  East Coast labels. While sources say about 12* staffers have been let go over the last  two days, other sources within the company say some of the layoffs are  being made to make way for new hires in other functions. For example,  Republic is adding promotion staff to handle Island Records, but also  laid off some staffers. At the end of the realignment, the newly  liberated labels and Republic will be down about a dozen staffers, UMG  sources say.  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>In other news related to the break-up of the Island Def Jam Group,  Island Records and Mercury&#8217;s market share will be counted with  Republic&#8217;s and Island Records president David Massey will report to both  UMG chairman\/CEO Lucian Grainge and Republic Records founder,  chairman\/CEO Monte Lipman. \u00a0Motown&#8217;s market share will be incorporated  into the Capitol Music Group headed by chairman\/CEO Steve Barnett. New  Motown president and Universal Music Publishing Group executive VP  Ethiopia Habtemariam will report to both Barnett and Universal Music  Publishing Group North America president Evan Lamberg.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: Billboard<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the splitting up of the Island Def Jam Music Group into three labels, the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}