A Different CBC With Job Cuts

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Cutting 10 More Jobs in Atlantic Canada 657 across Canada reports CMG

By Stephen Pate – The Canadian Media Guild released more details on the April job cuts at the CBC. Canadian Media Guild details where cuts at CBC will happen

“The loss of Hockey Night in Canada was a large blow to the corporation,” said a CBC source “that management still coming to grips with, but it means a much different CBC into the future.”

The Atlantic Region CMG staff representative Gerald Whelan confirmed 10 more jobs will be lost in Atlantic Canada, for a total of 21 positions cut.

In April, the Halifax Chronicle Herald reported 11 jobs would be cut. Regional cuts include 6 jobs in St. John’s Newfoundland and Labrador City, 1 in Charlottetown, PEI; 2 in Fredericton, NB; and 1 in Cape Breton, NS.

There will be other cuts to the sales people with the loss of Hockey Night in Canada.

Cuts to CBC Radio Canada French operations are not reported by the CMG since the employees are affiliated with another union.

CBC has been careful to only cut production staff as necessary, by not replacing retiring employees and only hiring casuals.

“Positions are being filled internally,” said a source “which explains why current executive director was promoted to that position, allowing Halifax to eliminate a position.”

CBC Charlottetown has “been involved in a lot of legal actions and that affects the budget as well.”

CBC cuts across Canada

As reported in j-Source, other cuts across Canada include:

  • 130 CMG jobs will be lost from news operations, including 85 producers, associate producers, hosts and reporters and 45 videographers, editors and audio recorders.
  • Jobs will be lost in Winnipeg, Regina, Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver, Toronto, Ottawa, Windsor, Thunder Bay, London, Whitehorse,  Yellowknife, Iqaluit, Inuvik, Kuujjuaq, Que. , and Rankin Inlet, Nunavut.
  • The merger of the Calgary and Edmonton weekend news shows will result in five job cuts in Calgary and three in Edmonton.
  • Thunder Bay will lose its afternoon radio program, Voyage North, and be replaced by a regional show produced in Sudbury.
  • The public broadcaster’s last radio field sound technicians are being cut this year.
  • The Sunday Edition national radio program from three to two hours due to budgetary restrictions, the CMG listed it as one the major cuts. It added the show will also lose some producers.
  • Plans to expand with a new station in London, Ont., have been scrapped.
  • It’s not clear if Windsor, Ont., will still have a local television news program, but the station is losing its last four dedicated camera operators.
  • North Late Night has been cancelled.
  • 35 jobs were lost as a result of CBC losing the broadcast rights for Hockey Night in Canada.

Details from j-Source. Featured image from Google Earth.

By Stephen Pate, NJN Network

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