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CTV cancelling most noon and weekend newscasts as Bell cuts 4,800 jobs. Here’s what shows are coming to an end
The layoffs of a historic magnitude come just after a report that Bell Media’s CEO landed in the top 50 best paid executives in Canada in 2022.
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In an internal memo obtained by the Star, Dave Daigle, vice-president of local TV, radio and Bell Media Studios, and Richard Gray, vice-president of news at Bell Media announced widespread programming changes coming to CTV News.
Here's what Daigle and Gray announced would be ending:
- Weekday noon broadcasts will end at all CTV stations except in Toronto
- CTV's weekend 6 p.m. to 11 p.m. newscasts are ending for all stations except in Toronto, Montreal and Ottawa
- CTV's evening programs — The Debate, This Hour and Top 3 Tonight — are all being shut down and being replaced by a weekday nightly news broadcast
- BNN Bloomberg's weekday daytime programming is also being "streamlined," to "reduce the number of separate broadcasts"
For full-year 2023, BCE operating revenue grew 2.1% to $24,673 millionwith year-over-year increases of 0.9% in service revenue and 9.4% in product revenue.CTV cancelling most noon and weekend newscasts as Bell cuts 4,800 jobs. Here’s what shows are coming to an end
The layoffs of a historic magnitude come just after a report that Bell Media’s CEO landed in the top 50 best paid executives in Canada in 2022.
In an internal memo obtained by the Star, Dave Daigle, vice-president of local TV, radio and Bell Media Studios, and Richard Gray, vice-president of news at Bell Media announced widespread programming changes coming to CTV News.
Here's what Daigle and Gray announced would be ending:
- Weekday noon broadcasts will end at all CTV stations except in Toronto
- CTV's weekend 6 p.m. to 11 p.m. newscasts are ending for all stations except in Toronto, Montreal and Ottawa
- CTV's evening programs — The Debate, This Hour and Top 3 Tonight — are all being shut down and being replaced by a weekday nightly news broadcast
- BNN Bloomberg's weekday daytime programming is also being "streamlined," to "reduce the number of separate broadcasts"
The greed is nasty
Getting laid off in this economy sheesh
hear hear
such a fakkit this trudeau guy is...
there's no better bs/performance artist than Trudeau 
step 1. create the conditions/environment for a crisis
step 2. watch crisis unfold
step 3. feign outrage
step 4. offer "soulution"
we're currently at step 3
step 1. create the conditions/environment for a crisis
step 2. watch crisis unfold
step 3. feign outrage
step 4. offer "soulution"
we're currently at step 3
there's no better bs/performance artist than Trudeau
step 1. create the conditions/environment for a crisis
step 2. watch crisis unfold
step 3. feign outrage
step 4. offer "soulution"
we're currently at step 3
How is this on Justin?
Local advertisers aren't buying ads. If no on buys ads you can't produce programming.
This is why all those local print newspapers are dead. They can't sell ads. Same reason our media was dying before these bills. People go to Google or FB for their news and advertisers don't get their R.O.I. And Bell is greedy as fukk, but media in this country is all but dead. Nobody cares about Canadian programming, and this is the result.
23 ODs in Belleville over the course of two days is crazy... This country not looking too hot, I gotta ask myself if I want to have and raise kids in this country
15 degrees outside and people already going crazy on the road, saw two guys hop out their cars and start scraping. Bare accidents too
15 degrees outside and people already going crazy on the road, saw two guys hop out their cars and start scraping. Bare accidents too
there's no better bs/performance artist than Trudeau
step 1. create the conditions/environment for a crisis
step 2. watch crisis unfold
step 3. feign outrage
step 4. offer "soulution"
we're currently at step 3
Rogers is doing layoffs now and so is Enbridge