ALLCITY Network, which runs PHLY, is going through a round of layoffs:

We’re told that in Philadelphia, Renee Washington and JP Zapata were let go. Washington hosted the PHLY Phillies show with Jamie Lynch and Zapata worked on Anthony Gargano’s morning show. The pair also teamed up on the PHLY Union show.

The cuts are taking place across ALLCITY’s portfolio of sites, which includes Denver, Chicago, Phoenix, and Dallas. In Chicago, one of the White Sox guys was laid off and one of the Cubs guys, too, which we’re told is part of a network-wide effort to trim down on baseball. It looks like the Blackhawks guy was let go as well.

We’ll update the story with anything else that comes up. EDIT – updating with comments from ALLCITY CEO Brandon Spano:

As many have seen on this app today, we were forced to make some really tough decisions. I have taken a tremendous amount of pride in protecting our employees and never leading us through a layoff cycle, so today has been extremely difficult.

Each of these impacted employees have been offered severance, health care coverage, and other benefits as part of the restructuring. And you may even see some stick around in a part-time capacity.

The truth is, as we continue to mature, we must make strategic changes in order to scale efficiently and unfortunately that means that there were important creators who were let go today and each one of them was very important to us.

As much as we would like to cover all sports in the exact same manner, the reality is that certain sports command a different scale of audience and advertiser interest at the local level and we must move our resources to better align with that.

It doesn’t mean that we’re no longer covering all teams in a city, but it does mean that we are reimagining what that looks like while being more conscious of our commitment to it. This means a smarter mix of daily shows, short-form content, and tentpole coverage. Ultimately, we believe these changes create long-term sustainability for our employees as we continue to scale and add networks across the country.

In response to questions about the holiday timing of the layoffs, he wrote: “A lot of people asking this… Everyone is being paid through January at the least, as well as their health care, their PTO, etc. There is nobody impacted financially over the holidays by this.”