Overview
- Employees began receiving layoff notifications Tuesday morning for several hundred positions across corporate functions, Pixar, Disney Entertainment Television and ESPN.
- Trade reporting and company statements say Pixar took the largest studio hit and National Geographic was the most affected unit inside Disney Entertainment Television.
- ESPN says many job impacts stem from integrating the NFL Network assets the company acquired, and internal memos and reports name longtime anchor Karl Ravech and analyst Ryan Clark among those impacted.
- Disney has not released a consolidated total for this round and company leaders have described the action as the third wave of cuts in 2026 after a January marketing reshuffle and an April restructuring that affected roughly 1,000 roles.
- The company says the reductions are intended to free resources for reinvestment and greater agility and the moves could shorten production pipelines, shift priorities toward lower-cost originals and affect the day-to-day work and incomes of hundreds of employees.