"They're murdering people in there."

not much worth picking off the CBC corpse . . . its been rotten to the core for a loooong time.

And notice, not one comment on programs or content. After all, presumably, staffing affects programs and content.

Hey - maybe it doesn't! Maybe the programs at CBC don't related to staffing. Maybe the CBC's main agenda is employment! Not programs!

Is it just me or is there more cannibalism in the news lately? First Lizzie May, now this.

I tell ya.

Why should they concern themselves? Haven't they been preaching global warming is going to wipe us all out. Who needs a job when the end of the world is nigh? Just keep munching your granola, and using two sheets of toilet paper per wipe, and not only are they unemployed but they are saving earth hours for us people with a job.

Tastes like chicken to me! :-)

I feel sorry for the younger, less dogmatic contractual employees who will be let go. The sixties baby boomers will stay. Though if it is anything like the universities to get hired you have to be screened by the leftie yuppies to get hired, so you have to be at least liberal, if not complete Marxist like Obama (oh my god, I would so not be hired...)

The threat seems to be that cutting back will give us more reruns of Little Mosque on the Prairie. Perhaps we should re-think this after all....

No, maybe not.

I'm convinced the Harper Conservatives will starve them out. Till they become a private station or is taken over by other business interests. I approve.
Nice to see them all served up with all the turnips.
JMO

It’ll be great entertainment to watch the CBC collapse!

Half their staff will go to Al Jazeera, the other half will don the preverbal white hoods, and roll with what they think may work.

Most of the CBC is so long in the tooth that they will probably get the 800+ from people who should have been put out to pasture long ago. No doubt with a cushy(correct me if my assumption is wrong) pension .

There are some 10,200 employees at the CBC.

They are cutting some 800 jobs.

TV programs to be scaled down or cancelled.

Same with radio.

So that means mostly actors, actresses and technicians will be axed or retire if they have their retirement numbers (ie: the magic 80).

Ever get the feeling that it is a corporation of managers just justifying their existence at other people's expense?

This warms my heart. It makes my skin crawl to think about how many people are employed at the CBC any cuts at all are good cuts. I'd like to see layoffs up around 100% Ill take what I can get though.

ET, you're right.

Here's a cross post I did at another SDA thread @ 4:38:

"Our objective throughout this very difficult exercise has been to protect ... our most valuable resource, the CBC employees who provide [the CEEB's services]," a CBC hack said.

"That being said, we recognize that the reality is that we will provide less to Canadians."

'Difficult to provide less when you don't provide much that Canadians want in the first place.

The Canadian Bloviating Corporation is cutting back the number of episodes of "Little House on the Prairie." GIVE ME A BREAK. That appallingly, stupefyingly dreadful show should be cut off altogether.

The clue as to why there are over 9,000 employees at the CBC?

The CEEB's workers are its "most valuable resource." Who would have known? It exists, by the sounds of it, to give almost 10,000 friends, family members, and leftard hangers-on employment not, as the CBC mandate alleges, to give balanced coverage of issues of importance to all Canadians.

IT'S. GOTTA. GO.

But without the CEEB how can we prove we are not racist? Well not all of us ... just the ones who inhabit Toronot and maybe Vancoover........

What, it takes 9000 CBC employees to do Hockey Night in Canada?

That's the only show they have that some people watch.

Reruns?
Gee, I wonder if they'll do reruns of the Maple Leaf Stanley Cup wins?
Gotta give those Leaf fans something to cheer about.

That's a shame.

Seriously, though, if it's the Harper govt.'s intention to kill the CBC, I would prefer that they state their intention openly and give their timeline rather than try to do it by stealth and a thousand cuts. But I won't howl if these and, I hope, future cuts put the CBC on a path of no return. I see this as a vicious circle: less money will mean an even less attractive programming schedule, which will lead to an even smaller viewership and less revenue, hence still worse television etc.

Well, we can dream, can't we?

Hilarious to watch Suhanna Marchand interview (if that's what you could call it) the Heritage Minister on Newsworld this afternoon. She was so angry she was almost incoherent. It was an amazingly unprofessional performance & quite fun to watch.

CBC thought it was untouchable - if every other sector of business/entertainment has been affected in this global meltdown, why are they so special? There are no guarantees in life and the viewing tastes of Canadians have changed. Really have to wonder how expensive reruns are - NOT. I remember when CBC made a fuss about how CTV was going to run CTV Newsnet and loop the news and programming together - Mother Corp complained to the CRTC about their rival's business model and forced them to change their plans. So now, CBC gets to change its business plan courtesy of viewership and tough economic times. Poetic justice don't you think?

1 billion dollars worth of taxpayers money would go a long way to giving gramma a new hip. After all, Gramma has paid taxes all her life for the hip.

Chop all of Suzuki's programs for starters.

Okay. I'm clueless. What's CMG?

Canadian Media Guild, I think.

Well, I just went over to their site and made a comment, Man, them cats are angry, funny how Liberals get that mad and start dropping the F Bomb.

My Mom use to wash our mouths out with Lava.

Critique the Ceeb to the nth degree but please do not dance with glee over the job losses of others.

I too was clueless until Kate answered that CMG question. Thanks Kate.

I too just went over to the CMG site and read their latest news release. Among the known cuts:

"Reduction of regional noon-hour programs to one hour"

Anybody else see the irony in that?

I used to work for the CBC back in the days of The Beachcombers.
They laid of most Technical production staff in the early 80s.They went on to become the skilled basis for the thriving Film Industry on the West Coast.
All that was left at the corp was middle management trading inter office memos to each other like a paper whirl pool.
I am surprised it was sustainable for so long