Overview
- Fewer than 40 employees were affected, based on the company’s most recent 10-K listing 541 staff.
- Starz characterized the cuts as a resource realignment to help it scale as a standalone streaming company about 10 months after the split.
- CFO Scott MacDonald said 2026 cash content spend will be reduced to improve cash flow by better matching spending with programming amortization.
- The company will stop disclosing subscriber numbers going forward, with the latest reported figure at 12.7 million OTT subscribers at the end of 2025, up 7.6% year over year.
- CEO Jeff Hirsch reiterated a focus on originals for women and underrepresented audiences and said Starz is using AI to drive production and operational efficiencies.