CBC English Service management held a Town Hall today to detail specific cuts. Here are the broad brush strokes:
- 5 CBC radio shows cut
- 50% music cut to music recordings
- The Current cut by 10%
- 80 jobs in English news
- 20 jobs cut in marketing
- 12 jobs cut in communications
- budget reductions in prime time programming
- more money for CBC.ca
- two bureaus left with only one person (La Ronge and Thompson, MB)
- Tod Maffin has a full list of shows cut/reduced. Here.
Coverage:
- Friends of Canadian Broadcasting live blogged the town hall.
- National Post
- Canadian Press
- CTV.ca
- Montreal Gazette: CBC cuts hit city hard
- Chronicle Herald: CBC to cut 31 positions in Maritimes
- Ottawa Business Journal: Ottawa spared the brunt of CBC cuts
- P2P: CBC slashes 800 jobs; Harper blamed
And, the CBC’s story.
Town hall audio recordings:
Here are my three recordings of today’s meeting. They were also uploaded to imeem.com:
Part 1: Management details the overall situation with English Service (TV, Radio, online)
CBC English Cuts town hall (Part 1 of 3) –
Part 2: Management details specific cuts and start of the Q&A
CBC English Cuts town hall – Part2/3 –
Part 3: Questions & Answers
CBC English Cuts town hall Part 3/3 –
Bonus: one more Commentary on yesterdays cuts: NOW Magazine: Six ways the CBC can survive
