Just last week, MTV’s head programming czar Brian Graden, president of the Music and Logo group and responsible for cultural touchstones such as South Park,” “The Osbournes” and “Pimp My Ride”, announced that he would be leaving the company after December. Variety had a good story last week on Graden’s departure, and the generational shift going on within MTV’s main division, and the company’s attempt to reinvent itself as the network for “millennials”, with new shows such as “It’s On With Alexa Chung”, a social media heavy TRL replacement.

This follows about 850 layoffs that parent Viacom did late last year, the majority of which were from MTVN.

Updated: The company wouldn’t confirm the divisions affected, or the total number, but did send us this statement: “As evidenced by many companies today, the current economic climate dictates we continue to look for more efficiencies in how we run our businnesses. These are difficult decisions that need to be made in order to better position us for future growth.”