Discovery Communications’ TLC is moving operations to L.A., staffers at the network were told Monday, TV Week reports.
New TLC President Angela Shapiro-Mathes originally had planned to be based in L.A. but to operate the network as a bicoastal operation, with some staffers in Discovery’s Silver Spring, Md., headquarters.
“However, it is clear after much discussion that to achieve the greatest level of success both from a creative and a financial standpoint, TLC should be operated as a consolidated business unit based solely in Los Angeles,” Ms. Shapiro-Mathes said in an internal memo.
She said a number of current TLC employees will be moving to L.A. in their current jobs. Other staffers have indicated they won’t be making the move. Those jobs will be posted in December in Los Angeles.
Some of the network’s ad sales teams will remain based in New York.
The move comes after a two-month review of TLC’s operations by Ms. Shapiro-Mathes. TLC was the only Discovery network not affected by new CEO David Zaslav’s reorganization earlier this year, before Ms. Shapiro-Mathes was hired in July.
