Faced with a declining subscriber base and increasing sports-rights costs, ESPN laid off around 300 employees — many of them working behind the scenes — in October 2015. Then, in April, the network cut roughly 100 jobs, with the reductions coming from ESPN's stable of on-air talent and online journalists. But the network made some high-profile hires after that, luring NBA news-breaker Adrian Wojnarowski from Yahoo and bringing in on-air personality Katie Nolan after her Fox Sports career petered out. ESPN also continued its plans for a new morning show built around Mike Greenberg, going so far as building a new studio at New York's South Street Seaport. But the start date for Greenberg's show has been pushed back from Jan. 1 to the spring because of construction delays.