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Shaw Media continues restructuring, sheds execs

TORONTO – As Shaw Communications continues to examine its new TV broadcasting division, the former Canwest Global, a number of executives will be leaving the company, or have had their roles downgraded, Cartt.ca has learned.According to sources, among those departing are long-serving executives Brett Manlove, VP of Global TV’s British Columbia stations and general manager of Global B.C. (26 years); Karen Gelbart, SVP lifestyle specialty channels, who came to Canwest with the Alliance Atlantis purchase, a company she had been with since 1997; and Patrick O’Hara, vice-president of Global TV’s eastern stations and general manager of Global Toronto (20-plus years).Shaw...