Dan O'Toole at TSN has been cut. Bell Media, which owns TSN, is going through some major head count decapitation this week. Most behind the camera or mic, but some on air talent.
Toronto Mike has the basic details on that plus 1010 NEWSTALK radio cutting it's whole news department https://www.torontomike.com/2021/02/dan-otoole-and-natasha-staniszewski/ All the staff cuts are raising questions as Bell Media recieved federal covid money this past year. The basic intent of that money was to save jobs. > Mark Jeffries, to Steve Timko, Paul Murray, moi, and Tom Wolper, Feb 3rd: > >> Colbert is doing a live post-Super Bowl show Sunday night. Back in 2016, >> he was the direct post-game attraction and most people agreed that it was a >> weak effort--which is why the direct post-game attraction is the series >> premiere of Queen Latifah's reboot of "The Equalizer"--the first time in >> years a new series premiere has been the post-game attraction since--the >> last time CBS had the Big Game in 2019, with the premiere of the bomb >> talent show "The World's Best" with British Jimmy and ViacomCBS family >> members Drew Barrymore and RuPaul. (In the Great White North, CTV is >> following the Big Game with the premiere of a homegrown drama series, >> "Holmes Family Effect"--last year it was "The Masked Singer" and the year >> before that an OTA edition of sister channel TSN's "SC with Jay & >> Dan"--that would be "SportsCentre"--dah da dah, dah da dah--Disney owns >> part of TSN). >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/967eb35a-603c-4818-b4ac-b30d9d8ae480n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/967eb35a-603c-4818-b4ac-b30d9d8ae480n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAK5Q1Bo-ZRnT%2BSugj%3DGv%2B%2BRFM-PfVRgZRX-F%3D0SWQhR_ZRkLGQ%40mail.gmail.com.
