Bell Media confirms internal radio and TV layoffs
Bell Media is laying off employees, including distinguished on-air personalities, during radio and TV stations opposite Canada.
However, a association won’t contend how many, who or where.
Unifor, a kinship representing on-air and broadcasting technicians during 17 CTV stations, estimates 50 jobs are being separated during Bell Media’s TV network alone in a latest round.
It says CFTO sportscasters Joe Tilley and Lance Brown, along with on-air personalities such as BNN horde Michael Kane and Ottawa CTV 2 hosts Melissa Lamb and Lianne Laing, are among those affected.
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The kinship pronounced a cuts meant a finish of internal sports broadcasts as of Dec. 27 during CTV’s flagship hire CFTO in Toronto, a pierce it claims has already been done during CTV stations in Edmonton, Calgary and Montreal.
In an email sent Monday, Bell Media orator Matthew Garrow reliable a kinship news that a series of employees were told final week their jobs would finish due to a reorder designed in prejudiced to residence declines in promotion revenue.
“Like other Canadian broadcasters, we are opposed fast change in a media marketplace including new promote technologies and observation options and fast-growing general competition,” he said.
“As a media marketplace evolves, internal radio and TV stations are confronting poignant declines in advertising, their usually source of revenue. We need to rearrange and revoke costs to conduct a impact.”
Garrow pronounced Bell is slicing a internal sports participation though will continue to have sports in a internal newscasts.
“With honour to sports, we can endorse that we are phasing out specific sportscasts and anchors unconditionally dedicated to sports as an editorial preference to transition sports coverage in response to elaborating spectator behaviour,” he said.
Last January, Bell cited identical factors as it reliable it was slicing an vague series of jobs during 24 of a locations opposite Canada.
Quality contra quantity
Howard Law, executive of Unifor’s media sector, pronounced a Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission, a sovereign broadcasting regulator, contingency take prejudiced censure for a cuts since it has been arising five-year promote looseness renewals but commanding clever conditions to safeguard peculiarity internal news continues.
“What a CRTC did not do, notwithstanding the urging, was to set regulations that enforced ‘quality’ over quantity, definition that networks can continue to cut corners on staffing, tangible news gathering, and permitting ‘talking heads’ stream affairs shows to be called ‘news,”‘ he pronounced in an email.
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Bell Media is a multiplication of BCE Inc., Canada’s largest telecommunications company. It owns 30 internal radio stations and 105 protected radio stations.
Many media companies opposite Canada have been slicing staff to understanding with augmenting foe in promotion markets.
Early this year, Rogers Media changed to trim a workforce by 4 per cent or 200 jobs, in a bid to urge efficiency.
Newspaper sequence Postmedia laid off 90 employees in Jan as prejudiced of a devise to cut $80 million in costs by mid-2017.
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