CBC English Service management held a Town Hall today to detail specific cuts.  Here are the broad brush strokes:

• 5 CBC radio shows cut
• 50% music cut to music recordings
• The Current cut by 10%
• 80 jobs in English news
• 20 jobs cut in marketing
• 12 jobs cut in communications
• budget reductions in prime time programming
• more money for CBC.ca
• two bureaus left with only one person (La Ronge and Thompson, MB)
• Tod Maffin has a full list of shows cut/reduced.   Here.

Coverage:

• Friends of Canadian Broadcasting live blogged the town hall.
• National Post
• Canadian Press
• CTV.ca
• Montreal Gazette: CBC cuts hit city hard
• Chronicle Herald: CBC to cut 31 positions in Maritimes
• Ottawa Business Journal: Ottawa spared the brunt of CBC cuts
• P2P: CBC slashes 800 jobs; Harper blamed

And, the CBC’s story.

Town hall audio recordings:

Here are my three recordings of today’s meeting.  They were also uploaded to imeem.com:

Part 1:  Management details the overall situation with English Service (TV, Radio, online)

CBC English Cuts town hall (Part 1 of 3) –
Part 2:  Management details specific cuts and start of the Q&A

CBC English Cuts town hall – Part2/3 –
Part 3:  Questions & Answers

CBC English Cuts town hall Part 3/3 –

Bonus: one more Commentary on yesterdays cuts:  NOW Magazine: Six ways the CBC can survive