News has broken that by this time next year, CBC will have shortened all of its regional, supper-hour newscasts from 90-minutes to either 30 or 60 minutes.
CBC News’s general manager and editor in chief, Jennifer McGuire, puts a positive spin on it, saying the changes aren’t about reducing the length of televised news, but rather, “changing how we serve the audience.” Their aim is to spread content out over the day, and across different media sources, instead of presenting the news exclusively in one big lump, at suppertime, on TV.
Their thoughts on the matter seem to boil down to observations that TV viewership is declining while news uptake online and on mobile devices is on the rise. So they intend to shift their focus from TV and radio, to web and mobile services. It’s being dubbed the “2020 Strategy,” not for its vision, but for its projected completion date.
Part of the strategy entails producing less televised news and less in-house TV programs and documentaries, to allow for more resources for the delivery on online news. This means that the work involved in producing documentaries and programs will now be outsourced to independent filmmakers – which will cut the CBC’s workforce by about 20%. CBC president and CEO Hubert T. Lacroix argues that, “To be the public broadcaster, we don’t need to be always the producer.”
It was revealed earlier this year that funding shortfalls and revenue losses led CBC/Radio-Canada to cut $130 million from this year’s budget, forcing 657 job cuts and taking the network out of competition for the rights to broadcast professional sports. So the funding cuts and diminishing ad revenue go hand in hand. CBC’s 2020 strategy will leave the broadcaster with 1,000 to 1,500 fewer employees, on top of the 657 job cuts already announced in April.
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