Network Ten's Wake Up program and its early, morning and late news will be axed from Friday. Source: AAP
THE fate of up to 150 Network Ten workers is up in the air after the broadcaster announced plans to gut its news service and axe Wake Up.
Friday will be the last day of the early, morning and late news bulletins as well as the Wake Up breakfast show.
Ten Eyewitness News at 5pm will continue to be produced locally and Studio 10 will remain part of the network's daytime schedule.
Ten's chief executive Hamish McLennan broke the news to staff in an email sent at midday on Wednesday, saying consultations would begin on Thursday about a proposed voluntary redundancy program for workers in the news, operations and engineering departments.
"The next few weeks will be a difficult and sad period, as colleagues leave the business," McLennan said.
"Let me assure you the changes are not being undertaken lightly.
"No one is happy about them, but unfortunately they are necessary."
"Despite the commitment and enthusiasm of its staff, Wake Up has not resonated with enough viewers to make it a viable program."
An industry source told AAP it was common knowledge within Ten that the breakfast show, launched in November last year, would be axed.
The fate of up to 150 workers is understood to be in limbo while management decides just how many will be made redundant.
Many of the employees, floor staff, crew and assistants, were specifically recruited to start up the breakfast show which was to ring in a new era for the network.
The network spent tens of thousands of dollars alone on building the set at Manly Beach and running cables from Ten's Pyrmont headquarters out to the set to avoid satellite transmission problems.
However, Wake Up has been plagued with issues since the outset when its creator and producer Adam Boland suffered a breakdown and quit.
"I feel very sad for all my friends at Ten. Very good people, let down by many things, including my early exit. Thinking of them all today," Boland Tweeted after the news broke.
Studio 10 co-host Sarah Harris also took to Twitter in support of her colleagues.
"Big hugs to my friends at Wake Up, Early/Morning News and Late News," she said.
The Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance (MEAA) says it will hold meetings with affected staff as soon as possible.
"We had a short discussion with the company this morning," Mike Dobbie from the MEAA told AAP.
"The company has told us that it will give us a briefing and will begin a consultation process this afternoon and we are seeking to minimise job losses."
McLennan said the television advertising market had been soft in recent years and the network's ratings, revenue and earnings performance has been disappointing.
Ten posted an $8 million loss in the six months to the end of February, which was better than the $243 million loss it announced a year earlier.
Speaking at the half yearly result in April, McLennan said he was confident the network could turn its fortunes around.
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