TORONTO – CBC will use some of its funds from the recent federal budget to launch a new digital service centred in London, ON and to digitize more content from its archives.
At a town hall meeting for employees on Monday, CBC brass unveiled plans to create and enhance the broadcaster's digital presence in southwestern Ontario with a new morning radio show, a full digital service, and an online hub for local information of interest to readers, viewers and listeners in the London area.
A CBC News report quoted Jennifer McGuire, GM and editor in chief for CBC News and Centres, as saying that the ‘pubcaster is also "looking at other markets" for potentially hosting similar local digital centres.
In addition to the London station, other spending plans include more original content on Radio 1 and more live recordings for CBC Music.
CBC will also spend about $1 million to preserve and digitize its archives of content, especially content currently on tape and other media that can erode over time. In particular, the broadcaster will invest in digitizing its extensive Indigenous language collection, some of which represents the only surviving record of some of Canada's Native languages, according to Heather Conway, CBC's EVP of English Services.
