It was another bleak day for Canadian news outlets on Monday as Rogers Media moved to trim its workforce by 4 per cent — or 200 jobs.
Rogers Media says the cuts, which will impact jobs in television, radio, publishing and administration, are part of efficiency efforts at Rogers Communications, one of Canada's largest telecom companies.
A memo to Rogers Media staff says the job cuts will begin in February and will conclude as soon as possible.
Rogers Media operates 24 TV stations, 52 radio stations, 57 publications and 93 websites.
The latest layoffs come after the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission was told that half of the country's local TV stations could be off the air by 2020 without a boost in revenues to pay for local programming.
The warning comes in a study submitted to the federal broadcast watchdog as it kicked off hearings into local and community television programming in Gatineau on Monday.
