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Hauppauge HBO Communications Center To Shut Down This Year
The closing of the local facility will affect a total of 200 employees.
HAUPPAUGE, NY - HBO announced on Wednesday it will be shutting down its Hauppauge communications center this year, affecting a total of 200 employees.
The 60,000-square-foot facility is located on New Highway.
"With two new state-of-the-art facilities now existing in Hudson Yards (Manhattan) and Atlanta, the services out of the Hauppauge Communications Center will become redundant so the plan is to close the center by years end," a company spokesperson said in a statement.
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Most of the employees will be transferred to the Hudson Yards location, which has been designed to support post-production needs on original programming as well as HBO digital distribution platforms.
However, the broadcast operations which originated out of Hauppauge, will now come out of Atlanta which will result in the elimination of some positions in New York.
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According to Newsday, a total of 75 jobs will be eliminated.
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