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Yesterday 3:11 pm  #1


CHCH and the Saturday evening news

As of today, CHCH in Hamilton is no longer airing the Saturday newscasts at 6 and 11pm

News director Greg O'Brien posted this to the station's website explaining the decision. He adds that even with the loss of the newscasts, no one is being let go/

It's good to see a person in power explain, in full, why the decision was made.

 

Last edited by ckg927 (Yesterday 3:12 pm)

 

Yesterday 3:13 pm  #2


Re: CHCH and the Saturday evening news

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Yesterday 6:04 pm  #3


Re: CHCH and the Saturday evening news

How does keeping employees on salary and telling them to stay home save costs?

This is stunting to draw attention to one of manager O'Brien's pet issues.

 

Yesterday 7:58 pm  #4


Re: CHCH and the Saturday evening news

67GreenRambler wrote:

How does keeping employees on salary and telling them to stay home save costs?

This is stunting to draw attention to one of manager O'Brien's pet issues.

Serious question: Would you rather he BS you as to the reason why?

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Yesterday 11:12 pm  #5


Re: CHCH and the Saturday evening news

The question doesn't make sense to me because O'Brien already is deceiving us. He stated that less money is being apportioned to CHCH by the feds so they have no choice but to stop Saturday evening news production.
However, apart from an unknown number of part-timers, no cost savings for CHCH are discernable here. Maybe I'm missing something or maybe this is a smoke signal to Ottawa.

 

Today 3:19 am  #6


Re: CHCH and the Saturday evening news

Anything is better than the situation  back in 2015. 
Good for them for steering clear of that:  https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/headlines/chch-news-files-for-bankruptcy-cancels-friday-and-weekend-newscasts-1.3361492


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