CBC News revamp geared to 24-hour coverage

[CHIMO]

At the same time, the news operation has to absorb cuts. There will be 70 jobs eliminated in news as part of the 393 layoffs in English-language services announced in March.

Among the cuts are a reduction in resources to international coverage and to shows such as The National, as well as to TV and radio news across the country.

The National will move to seven days a week, replacing Saturday Report and CBC News: Sunday, an initiative announced earlier.

Specific announcements of other new program schedules and job cuts will come later this year and through early 2010, McGuire said.
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/media/story/2009/04/16/news-renewal.html

Welcome to the Harper world of dumbing down. They can't even produce the six o'clock news on radio now without filling it with rap music because they have lost everything.

[Spazito]

1. Yep, he's chomping at the bit to spend millions of taxdollars to save...

CanWest, his political PR company, while starving CBC. Dispicable but, then again, everything that POS does is dispicable.

[HeresyLives]

2. I agree.

He'll save CanWest, while Asper buys the Blue Bombers, but not a nickel to our national news network.