CBC staff get more specifics (175 hours of English TV gone), but don't yet know full account of cuts

TORONTO – While staff at CBC’s English division found out today that CBC News Network’s Connect and CBC Radio’s Dispatches are being cancelled, along with a few other specifics detailed below, it is not known yet what other entertainment or sports programming is going to face the axe – although that information won’t be long coming. What the employees heard today is that of the 650 positions being eliminated at CBC/Radio-Canada which were announced last week, 473 will happen prior to the end of July this year (215 from the English side, 153 from the French side and 105 from...