Rogers cuts 110 jobs, ends all OMNI newscasts
SIMON HOUPT - SENIOR MEDIA WRITER
The Globe and Mail
Published Thursday, May. 07 2015, 12:41 PM EDT
Rogers Media Inc. slashed 110 positions from its conventional TV operations on Thursday, transforming the daily newscasts on its multicultural OMNI stations into current affairs shows that will spend more air time on each story but won’t do original reporting.
Rogers will also eliminate its short-lived Breakfast Television program in Edmonton, in favour of a two-hour early evening program known as Dinner Television. That show, which will be hosted by the NHL veteran Jason Strudwick, will feature light chat but no original news-gathering.
Operations in Rogers’ Toronto, Edmonton, Calgary, and Vancouver stations were affected.
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