Cost Cutting Details Emerging
Some details are starting to emerge about the cost-cutting measures announced yesterday.
- The Current will have their budget cut by 10 per cent;
- In Windsor, the French radio morning show and Saturday show will be cancelled, to be replaced by regional inserts into Toronto programming;
- Overnight French network music programming currently produced out of Windsor, Edmonton and Vancouver will be eliminated;
- French Regional radio noon shows will be replaced by a new national show – it’s not yet known where this program will originate;
- On the French Services TV side, the regional noon news program out of Ottawa will be cancelled;
- The French supper-hour regional Téléjournal program will be reduced from 60 minutes to 30 for the summer season The program Zeste will be put on hiatus.
I should say none of this has been verified, and it’s coming from various sources. I’m sure there will be more details shortly.
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Paul,
Thank you for quoting our recent communique almost verbatim.
The bit you dropped, though, is that these cuts are the ones that are known in the *French services*. Those announcements were made to staff yesterday.
“Regional radio noon shows will be replaced by a new national show”
If true, expect this to meet the most resistance from the listeners. The radio noon program is often a phone-in about local issues, and it’s both beloved and important for the community.
@Keith: Snarky much?
So I guess we’ll just have to watch more Fox, CNN and other trashy networks. We need to get rid of these barbarians before they cause more damage to the country. Where’s the opposition?
No oh!! WIndsor Ontario will not have a french morning show on radio!! What will the less than 6,000 french people in Windsor do??
Sounds like this should have happened anyway. I guess the mother corp wanted to get in to that important Detriot market, lots of french people there!!!
Welcome to the real world cbc.
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Don’t trash-up the CBC…
CBC (radio & tv) sets the standard for what public broadcasting can be… done right by people and a system that “gets it” — please don’t become what you are now an oasis from, i.e. everyone else on the air!
I know more than a few Detroiters who’ve enjoyed CBC services over the years.
I also know many Detroiters and Michiganders who were dismayed over cuts and the potential loss of CBC Windsor.
Well you wanted Steve Harper and his cronies and this what you get – and of course the hidden agenda is to close down the CBC because you didn’t say what they wanted to hear. You have to make a loud noise now or the CBC is toast. Danny Williams warned us about Steve – he fleeced Newfoundland out of billions of dollars and now he’s going to screw the CBC right out of business.