paterson1 wrote:

 I was surprised you didn't chime in with some questions Aaron. 
 

I don't have any. I know what's coming.

That's the neat thing about radio; an owner's approach is right out in the open for anyone to hear.

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paterson1 wrote:

RadioAaron wrote:

paterson1 wrote:

 I was surprised you didn't chime in with some questions Aaron. 
 

I don't have any. I know what's coming.

That's the neat thing about radio; an owner's approach is right out in the open for anyone to hear.

Nice that you you know more about Jon's business than he does.  And thanks for telling me what else I disagreed with.  

I don't know more about his business than he does, obviously. But from a product point of view, none of it's exactly a mystery to anyone who spends any amount of time with it.

CFLY reverts to FLY-FM branding, but otherwise stays the same
CKLC reverts to some form of alt-rock, branded as either DRIVE or FREQ
CJPT becomes Oldies 103.7 with the same sound as the rest of them
CFJR becomes LAKE-FM

 

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I heard Jim Richards pay tribute to Laxer on his Friday NewsTalk Tonight show. Laxer was a frequent guest panelist and had been on every week for well over a year. He didn't actually reveal why he was saluting him, but it was pretty obvious if you put two and two together. 

SARCASM ALERT
I've been picking up dribs and drabs about some of my former co-workers who have been sh*t-canned, much as I was 15 years ago next month.  One glaring omission is who from the executive suite -- you know, the six- and seven-figure salary earners -- has been shown the back door. 
 

Broadcast Dialogue has a list of more names that have walked the plank at Bell stations. And it appears the TV Division got hit as hard as the radio section. 

Gone are anchors Lois Lee and Angie Seth.

Long time Parliament Hill reporter Kevin Gallagher is out. 

And Ramneek Gill, who was the GM at both CTV News and CP24 is also on the street. For many years, she was a producer at City TV's CityNews.

There are a plethora of other less-well-known behind the scenes people on that list, but all are being released into a world where there are fewer broadcasting jobs than ever. I wish them all luck. I suspect they're going to need it. 

Bell Media layoffs hit television hardest thus far
 

Well, it looks like at least one employee benefitted from all the moves at Bell. The anchor of the chain's Vancouver newscast is joining the CTV National News team, to provide reports from the west coast. It comes after one of their long time western stalwarts, Bill Fortier, was let go in the massive firings last week. 

Andrew Johnson won't need to go far to start his new job - he remains in the same news facility but will just be covering different stories and filing them to a different source. 

Vancouver was one of the many markets that lost their noon and weekend casts in the cost cutting. 

"It’s hard to move on": CTV Vancouver anchor leaving local newscast for national airwaves

As for Fortier, the new dad says he's still pondering what to do next. 

Centerline wrote:

CTV Kitchener noon news replaced by a game show, kind of ironic.

Yeah. It is kind of ironic. Did they let go of Daryl Morris who was the news at noon anchor? From what I can tell a few people at CTV London were let go according to what Carlye Fieset mentioned on the night the newscast aired about the cuts. They moved Amandalina Letterio to the 11PM anchor. At CTV Windsor Stefanie Masotti is just the sole anchor on the 6PM news and Ricardo Venenza does the 11PM news. Bell should have NOT bought these TV stations in Southwestern Ontario. Now the only weekend news on TV i will have to watch is CHCH which has an excellent newscast and it is not owned by a big greedy telecom company.

Radiowiz wrote:

haydenmatthews14 wrote:

Centerline wrote:

CTV Kitchener noon news replaced by a game show, kind of ironic.

Yeah. It is kind of ironic. Did they let go of Daryl Morris who was the news at noon anchor? From what I can tell a few people at CTV London were let go according to what Carlye Fieset mentioned on the night the newscast aired about the cuts. They moved Amandalina Letterio to the 11PM anchor. At CTV Windsor Stefanie Masotti is just the sole anchor on the 6PM news and Ricardo Venenza does the 11PM news. Bell should have NOT bought these TV stations in Southwestern Ontario. Now the only weekend news on TV i will have to watch is CHCH which has an excellent newscast and it is not owned by a big greedy telecom company.

For what's left of news, sports should be coming from a TSN Sports desk, done by sports people, not by the anchor in any of the markets. 
Toronto should have weather done from CP24 weather. It costs them nothing to use the same person who is already doing a weather report for CP 24 already anyway...

Agreed. Common sense would suggest that this would be the correct course of action. Lack of common sense seems to be in abundance here.

Also part of the cuts. CFPL-TV London video cameraman Jim Knight was a victim of the Bell cuts. He worked at CFPL-TV for 46 years.

https://twitter.com/GlenPearson/status/1758850879027835072

The graphics were updated as of Thursday.

Broadcast Dialogue reports more layoffs from Bell's cutbacks, including Atlantic Bureau chief Creeson Agecoutay, one of their higher profile Indigenous employees. Given the sensitivities of representative hiring these days, I'm surprised he's on the list.

Also gone: local Sudbury news anchor Tony Ryma, who had been at the CTV affiliate for 36 years.