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Montreal station manager Karen Macdonald referred comment to national PR in Toronto. “While we can’t comment on specific individuals, many of the impacted studio positions will be converted to field reporting which should help provide more local content not only for the late and weekend shows but for online and mobile,” Reeb told me. The others either declined to comment or didn’t respond when I asked them to. Connell is already gone, the others leave May 15.Ĭonnell says he plans to return to freelancing. Bryan-Baynes is staying on as a reporter, but Holder, who’s technically a freelancer, is out of a job this fall.Īlso gone are morning co-host Richard Dagenais, morning show associate producer Gloria Henriquez, and morning show control-room director Jim Connell. In Montreal, the jobs affected would be those of late-night anchor Elysia Bryan-Baynes and weekend anchor Peter Anthony Holder. After all, they’re not just pretty faces that sit at their desks until they’re ready to go on air: They’re writing scripts and checking up on local news, work that presumably would need to be taken up by someone else if the anchors are taken out of their jobs. Evening news weather man Anthony Farnell is based in Toronto, a fact that’s never made obvious to viewers.īut it’s odd that Global thinks that local anchors aren’t important. This won’t be the first time Global has had people from Toronto do local news. It’s part of what Global News boss Troy Reeb describes as a move to “a story-centric production model and that means moving past some of the traditional ways we’ve produced television newscasts.” In other words, the focus is on having local people work on the content, while saving as much money as possible on the container for that content. Like what they did with control rooms, now even the anchors will produce multiple newscasts for different regional markets in one shift. On Thursday, Shaw Media announced that in eastern and central Canada, late-night and weekend newscasts will be done out of Toronto. All that’s left are the newsroom, the journalists, some ad sales and marketing people, and a small green studio with a desk and an anchor.īut they’ve managed to find a way to take it even further. As it is, stations like Montreal have their control rooms in hubs thousands of kilometres away. You’d think that Global couldn’t go any further in centralizing the production of their regional newscasts.