Cable / Telecom News

CBC: “The reality is, as things stand, we are not sustainable”, but while the shift to digital happens, the transmitters will stay on


SO THE QUESTION NOW IS, will Hubert Lacroix, Heather Conway and Louis Lalande be able to move the internal mountains necessary to transform the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation from a traditional TV and radio broadcaster to a mobile and digital-first outfit?Thursday’s announcements surely talked a good game (from an outsider’s point of view anyway. We know those of you inside are looking at 1,500 more lost jobs and are not viewing that as anything approaching “good”), but can the CBC really view everything it does through the viewfinder of a smartphone camera and find, as its new strategy is called, “A...