When Gray Television announced that they would be merging with Raycom, Gray wanted Raycom to trim their employee roster before the merger took place.

In other words, Gray wanted to save money, whack people, but not look like the bad guy in all this.

So, before the merger is finalized, Raycom started kicking staff to the curb.

Here is the internal memo that was sent to the Raycom staff on Friday evening (nice timing) as the rest of the industry focused on Hurricane Florence.