Aftershock of the Pac-12 dissolution

After USC and UCLA said they would depart the Pac-12 conference - with the latter setting off a brouhaha at the Regents - other teams left, SFGATE reports that layoffs are resulting, even as their are legal fights over management and assets of the dissolving conference:

The knocking-at-death’s-door Pac-12 Conference is officially bringing an end to perhaps the biggest failure in sports broadcasting history: the Pac-12 Networks.

According to documents filed with labor officials, the conference plans to lay off 141 employees from its San Ramon office on a periodic basis starting on Jan. 5, nearly a year after the Pac-12 production center moved to that office from San Francisco. The layoffs will continue through June 28 — just before the end of the academic year and the conference’s media rights deal — and include broadcast engineers, numerous directors, an on-air host and senior producer, and multiple senior-level roles...

Full story at https://www.sfgate.com/collegesports/article/pac-12-death-date-networks-layoffs-san-ramon-18554440.php.