canada: CTV cuts..... deep

[Doug Eastick]

As usual, within after a month that Bell 'celebrates' or brings awareness to mental health through their Bell Let's Talk campaign, Bell media sells of a truckload of radio stations and CTV cuts 4800 jobs.   (It's like clockwork every year).

I'll link the CBC news article.

In general, no local noon news; no local weekend news.    Only a few major markets keep those.

Bell Media planning cuts to CTV, BNN Bloomberg following BCE layoffs, sale of 45 radio stations | CBC News

[bobjersey]

I had to go back and check if a longtime Bell property, AM 580 CKWW ("from the legendary studios" once used by CKLW in Ouellette Avenue) Windsor, had been unloaded... there is an application for transfer of it and two other stations pending before the CRTC, tho the RadioInsight article (link) about it from November said no format changes were planned...

B

 

Doug Eastick, Feb 9th:

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[Mark Jeffries]

Someone has said that the good thing about the Bell sales is that they're selling the stations to smaller companies who might be willing to make the stations more, uh, local, unlike the States, where the big chains were selling either to each other or the big Bible-thumpers like EMF ("K-LOVE").

Mark Jeffries
spotl...@gmail.com

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