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More Cuts At Corus, Including AM640
You wouldn't think there was anyone left at Corus to let go and still keep things running. Despite that, another round of cuts has hit stations from the west coast to Toronto.
The AM640 cuts include producer Santiago Bedoya, a 3-year veteran who is frequently heard on air during several talk shows. Global BC and Global National also lost employees. According to a written statement:
“These changes are part of the difficult but necessary work to ensure our teams are structured in a sustainable way, while minimizing disruption to local news and audio delivery. We remain committed to supporting our news operations, and these changes do not reflect station closures or a retreat from our commitment to news."
Yes, and they forgot to add 'don't let the door hit you on the way out.' My sympathies to those who lost their jobs on Wednesday.
Corus Entertainment confirms more layoffs across Global News, talk radio
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Sympathies as well to those that lost their roles.
If Corus Q4 numbers are off target, it’s safe to assume even more good people will lose jobs.
Who’s left at 640?
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Santiago didn't deserve to lose his job. He's a good hard working technical producer. I hope he lands something quickly.
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Santiago gets the boot, but the other guy who comes on to blather with Mulroney, sounding like an exaggerated version of The Simpson's 'Apu', gets to stay?
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One of my sources told me that they are really feeling the lack of staff at Corus. Most remaining staff have had their workloads increased and finding a broadcasting job elsewhere is slim pickings these days, so they stay until they can’t. I really feel for them as I worked for Corus on contract and really enjoyed it, sad to see their demise.
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Walter - no need to get nasty. His name is Joyjeet and he is also a very talented young technical producer.
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This is peripheral to the Corus story, but I was surprised that an organization that prides itself on accuracy got this one wrong. The Canadian Press picked up the layoff story and as often happens, it was republished by subscribers across the country on their online sites.
The problem is in the headline and in the article. See if you can figure out the error.
Corus makes cuts at Global BC, Global National, News 640 and talk radio
What's wrong? The Corus Toronto station has never been known as "News 640." It's had a lot of monickers over the years, currently AM640, but considering they barely even have an actual newsroom anymore, this couldn't be more of an error. Even if they were to put out a correction now, it's unlikely it would fix the problem on most sites that have already published it.
I've seen it repeated in the Toronto Sun, CityNews and even the CBC. Only the Toronto Star's article, done by one of their reporters and not a Canadian Press reprint, got it correct.
I'm just surprised no one at CP caught it. They usually have pretty good standards over there.
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jughead jones wrote:
Walter - no need to get nasty. His name is Joyjeet and he is also a very talented young technical producer.
No doubt, but he should stick to technical production.
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I almost hate to ask. How long until they shut down more stations? Will CFPL 980 survive? It is still a pretty popular station; possibly more popular than some of their London FM's.
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This is peripheral to the Corus story, but I was surprised that an organization that prides itself on accuracy got this one wrong. The Canadian Press picked up the layoff story and as often happens, it was republished by subscribers across the country on their online sites.
The problem is in the headline and in the article. See if you can figure out the error.
Corus makes cuts at Global BC, Global National, News 640 and talk radio
What's wrong? The Corus Toronto station has never been known as "News 640." It's had a lot of monickers over the years, currently AM640, but considering they barely even have an actual newsroom anymore, this couldn't be more of an error. Even if they were to put out a correction now, it's unlikely it would fix the problem on most sites that have already published it.
I've seen it repeated in the Toronto Sun, CityNews and even the CBC. Only the Toronto Star's article, done by one of their reporters and not a Canadian Press reprint, got it correct.
I'm just surprised no one at CP caught it. They usually have pretty good standards over there.
The quote from the Broadcast Dialogue article linked in the OP:
“As we continue to adapt to the evolving needs of our business, Corus has made a small number of changes in select markets, including roles at Global BC, Global National, News 640 and talk radio,” a Corus spokesperson said, in an emailed statement.
I won't completely blame CP here (though there are some ex-640 staff there who should know better), they're quoting Corus' own spokesperson. The misbranding comes from inside the house.
This tells you all need to know about the state of the company, and exactly where 640 sits on the company list of priorities.
As for why it has been reproduced everywhere, I blame that on auto-aggregators that just suck in the CP content and republish. No humans do this job in 2026.
Corus used to be a great place to work - things started shifting after the merger with Global News. Today, this sums it up for me:
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I almost hate to ask. How long until they shut down more stations? Will CFPL 980 survive? It is still a pretty popular station; possibly more popular than some of their London FM's.
AM980 still has 2 local hosts in the morning and afternoons. If 980 did shut down then where will London Knights fans listen to their games on the radio? Or the Blue Jays? They would ether move to FM96 (95.9), Country 104 (103.9) or Jack 102.3 since CHST is owned by Rogers Media. So hopefully 980 does not fall into the same fate as 570 did back in July. I don’t listen to 980 very much anymore unless for Blue Jays baseball or Knights hockey. I listen to CBC London Morning and Afternoon Drive a lot on 93.5 FM.