CAB to be dramatically downsized

OTTAWA – The official announcement will come Wednesday morning we’re told, but Cartt.ca has learned that the Canadian Association of Broadcasters will go forward as a very different, far smaller, organization. We don’t yet have all the particulars but it appears about half of the staff was told today they will be losing their jobs. There’s no word yet on the new direction the organization will take (which is something the board of directors has been working on for two months, as we first reported) or the future of the annual convention – or who will replace outgoing president and...