AndreaPalladio
Senior Member
Alley beside their apartment building on Broadview.
Sort of similar to the case of George Smitherman's husband. What was the verdict on that one; suicide?
Hundreds of layoffs at CTV/Bell Media today. Most likely some well known on-air talent will be gone tonight.
Not just that, but their consumer reports are very much common sense as well, such as not leaving small children and pets inside a parked car during a summer day or not texting and driving. The same can be said about tech news.Turns out it was only behind the scenes staff. It's puzzling how you can lay off hundreds of producers, editors, marketing, and admin people while keeping everything else running smoothly.
That being said CTV's local news broadcast is garbage (not implying the others are any better). It's a one hour show of which; 20 minutes is commercials; 10 minutes are sports reel highlights with Lance Brown notably providing a nearly Rosie DiManno dumb level of coverage; 10 minutes for the weather where the same forecast is repeated four times; 10 minutes on totally worthless 'entertainment' junk; leaving 10 minutes for 'news' most of which is 'car crash on the DvP', and 'top stories' which are repeated twice in the show.
They should have cut the bloated, useless, on air talent instead of the back end.
The bottom line at Torstar continues to suffer as print’s profitability erodes. Print ad revenue at the Toronto Star plunged 13.5 per cent in the third quarter, compared with a year earlier, and dropped 8.8 per cent at Metroland Media Group, which publishes The Hamilton Spectator and The Guelph Mercury, among other newspapers.
Now, the focus shifts to Star Touch, the free tablet edition the Star launched on Sept. 15., on which the paper is pinning its digital hopes despite uncertainty about the long-term popularity of tablets. On a conference call with analysts, Torstar president and chief executive officer David Holland deflected questions about the new edition’s performance so far, saying it will “take time to build our audience.”
“We’re just seven weeks into the launch. It is still early days,” Mr. Holland said.
Instead, he set a target: To attract 180,000 daily readers to Star Touch by the end of 2016.
I have heard they will be coming back next week, but with a greatly reduced staff. According to relatives living in Hamilton the local news component of CHCH was terrible, and they always ended up watching CBC or CTV Toronto instead. There basically isn't enough 'news' in Hamilton for an hourly broadcast every day. The broadcast ended up spending enormous amounts of time on "Entertainment", sports highlights, and weather. Even my 70 year old father now knows how to check the weather app on his Android phone and so he doesn't care to watch a 5 minute weather report.Looks like Hamilton no longer has its own localized television news.
I have heard they will be coming back next week, but with a greatly reduced staff. According to relatives living in Hamilton the local news component of CHCH was terrible, and they always ended up watching CBC or CTV Toronto instead. There basically isn't enough 'news' in Hamilton for an hourly broadcast every day. The broadcast ended up spending enormous amounts of time on "Entertainment", sports highlights, and weather. Even my 70 year old father now knows how to check the weather app on his Android phone and so he doesn't care to watch a 5 minute weather report.