From Simon Houpt of The Globe and Mail:
Rogers to cut jobs, end all OMNI newscasts
Rogers Media Inc. is cutting approximately 100 positions from its conventional TV operations, and eliminating all newscasts on its multicultural OMNI stations, as it grapples with spiralling losses at its City and OMNI broadcasters.
Staff across the country are receiving pink slips Thursday, with the brunt of the cuts coming at the troubled OMNI operations and stations in the West. Continue reading.
That’s insane. It can’t be that costly to produce newscasts.