Friday, June 27, 2014

Bit By Bit...

...It's not the way I prefer, but at least it's happening. Long over due, too, but they are trying to catch up:

CBC cutting back evening news, in-house production

CBC to cut back supper-hour news, in-house productions
"Corporation will have up to 1,500 fewer employees by 2020"
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"The CBC is shifting its priorities from television and radio to digital and mobile services, a move that will reduce staff, and supper-hour news broadcasts and programs produced in-house, says CBC president and CEO Hubert T. Lacroix.

“We used to lead with television and radio. Web came and then mobility came. We are reversing, we are inverting the priorities that we have,” Lacroix said, referring to the broadcaster’s 2020 strategy. “We’re going to lead now with mobility, we’re going to lead with whatever widget you use.

"You’re going to see an investment in mobility that’s going to rise as the investment in perhaps television ... is reduced.”"
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"In April, Lacroix announced that funding shortfalls and revenue losses had forced the broadcaster to cut $130 million from its budget this year, a move that the CBC said will eliminate 657 jobs over the next two years and take the network out of competing for the rights to broadcast professional sports."

CBC’s leaders bring it to the brink of an existential crisis: Burman
"If there was any doubt that Canada’s public broadcaster is confronting an unprecedented existential crisis, it vanished Thursday. CBC President Hubert Lacroix unveiled the corporation’s latest five-year plan at a “town hall” meeting of staff in a performance that was as disingenuous as it was depressing.

The CBC’s enemies are not only circling their prey from the outside, including the Conservative government with its unrelenting budget cuts. Its enemies are also working from within. The CBC has a compliant board of directors overwhelmingly stacked with Conservative party donors and a president, also conservative, who appears ready to implement any budget cut in virtual silence."
Says Tony Burman, who used to work for the corpse.
"Let us not be fooled. In the dead of night across this country, cut by cut, in small towns and large cities, in newsrooms and documentary edit suites, Canada’s public broadcaster is being destroyed."
And you're point is???

Lefties are apoplectic: Massive CBC cuts anger Canadian Media Guild and Friends of Canadian Broadcasting

Interesting graph on that website. CBC has faced an annual budget cut for years and years, with the biggest drop occurring during Chretien's administration.

CBC: “The reality is, as things stand, we are not sustainable”, but while the shift to digital happens, the transmitters will stay on

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