At 1:30pm EDT on April 04/2012 the CBC announced program and other cuts that will be made as a result of the federal budget which slashed funding for our national public broadcaster by $115 million.
During the Live Blog CBC President Lacroix discussed several ways of increasing revenue and decreasing expenditures such as leveraging ads on TV, increasing digital revenue, introduce ads to Radio 2 and Espace Musique. It was mentioned that theCBC applied to the CRTC this morning for permission to place ads on Radio 2 and EM, but have chosen to keep Radio One ad free.
It was also announced that the CBC will be squeezing the employee pension plan, asking employees to pay more to save $5million. CBC will also be accelerating the reduction of its real estate footprint. CBC will save about $30 million by scaling back and slowing down expansion plans. CBC will sell Bold and cancel plans for a sports specialty station.
It was also announced that there would be major cuts to programming ... $64 million will be cut from French service, $ 150 milion from English services and the balance from RCI and other services.
Job cuts will come out of the media lines, equally split between the English and French services...this will cost an additional $125 million on top of the $200 million mentioned earlier. 650 full time jobs will be eliminated ....475 in year one....150 jobs in 2013/14 and the balance following in the next year. Also about 150 management jobs to be cut for a total of 800.
Following the Live Blog there was a Q and A from employees across the country. A question from Montreal asked about management incentive payments...will they be cut? Lacroix says "no".
"I will let Canadians decide for themselves if this is a fair cut" says Lacroix.
Read the full transcript here.
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