{"id":3606,"date":"2021-01-29T00:22:49","date_gmt":"2021-01-29T00:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmg.ca\/toronto\/cbc\/?p=3606"},"modified":"2021-01-29T00:22:49","modified_gmt":"2021-01-29T00:22:49","slug":"cmg-advocates-for-quality-news-diversity-at-cbc-license-renewal-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cmg.ca\/toronto\/cbc\/cmg-advocates-for-quality-news-diversity-at-cbc-license-renewal-hearing\/","title":{"rendered":"CMG advocates for quality news, diversity at CBC license renewal hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">CMG President, Carmel Smyth, CBC Branch President, Kim Trynacity and Francophone Affairs Director, Dominique Gauthier, described the negative impact of years of financial cuts to local news services across the country. The lack of resources has resulted in questionable use of repeats and repurposed programming among other things.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">The CMG used its appearance to emphasize the importance of maintaining hours of original programming on radio and television, as the majority of Canadians still rely on these platforms. We urged the CRTC not to give CBC the ability to move all television news services online in order to meet its licence requirements.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">The union also urged the Commission to require the CBC to improve its record for hiring and retaining diverse media workers in all job categories, including senior management. And there was a call to review programming and journalistic standards through an inclusion and diversity lens.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Key recommendations:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">at a minimum, CBC\/Radio-Canada be required to maintain current levels of service on radio and television, and to invest more in local news, underserved communities, as well as in-house documentary production and long-form journalism. The union also asked for the renewal of mandatory distribution of CBCNN and ICI RDI.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">that CBC<\/span><span lang=\"EN-CA\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">\/Radio-Canada be obliged to improve reporting on hiring, retention, career development and promotions for equity-seeking groups, including among senior management<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">that CBC\/Radio-Canada also improve diverse content of programming on all platforms<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">that CBC\/Radio-Canada drop branded content from its platforms, as the Corporation has not provided assurances on how it will ensure the credibility of CBC as a trusted news media source not suffer with this service<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lnk.ie\/4V31K\/e=ohlenna@gmail.com\/https:\/\/www.cmg.ca\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/CMG-Submission-CRTC-2019-379-February20_2020.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/lnk.ie\/4V31K\/e%3Dohlenna@gmail.com\/https:\/\/www.cmg.ca\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/CMG-Submission-CRTC-2019-379-February20_2020.pdf&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1611964706680000&amp;usg=AFQjCNF5hc7jSg6sMbeaZqy_KoqEsH7tbg\"><span lang=\"EN\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">You can read our full submission here<\/span><\/span><\/a><span lang=\"EN\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">CMG President, Carmel Smyth<br \/>\nCBC Branch President, Kim Trynacity<br \/>\nDirector of Branch Francophone Affairs, Dominique Gauthier<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CMG President, Carmel Smyth, CBC Branch President, Kim Trynacity and Francophone Affairs Director, Dominique Gauthier, described the negative impact of years of financial cuts to local news services across the country. The lack of resources has resulted in questionable use&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cmg.ca\/toronto\/cbc\/cmg-advocates-for-quality-news-diversity-at-cbc-license-renewal-hearing\/\">Read more <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[61,59,57,28,60,58],"class_list":["post-3606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-branded-content","tag-cbcnn","tag-crtc","tag-diversity","tag-ici-rdi","tag-licence-requirements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmg.ca\/toronto\/cbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmg.ca\/toronto\/cbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmg.ca\/toronto\/cbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmg.ca\/toronto\/cbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmg.ca\/toronto\/cbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cmg.ca\/toronto\/cbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3607,"href":"https:\/\/cmg.ca\/toronto\/cbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3606\/revisions\/3607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmg.ca\/toronto\/cbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmg.ca\/toronto\/cbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmg.ca\/toronto\/cbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}