The CBC's Alison Smith accepts the RTDNA for best newscast at Saturday's awards gala.
Photo Credit: Marissa Nelson/CBC

In spite of budget cuts, CBC nets 24 awards

Canada’s public broadcaster won 24 awards from the RTNDA, the organization that represents electronic journalists on Saturday in Toronto. This may have cheered employees who recently learned 657 positions will be cut as a result of $130 million in budget cuts.

Successive Canadian governments have reduced funding to the CBC over the past two decades, to the point that it is the third worst funded of public broadcasters in industrialized nations.

Awards were given to both national and regional services of the CBC. The RTNDA prizes are Canada’s most prestigious awards honouring the best in the fields of programming, stations and news gathering organization in radio, television and on digital platforms.

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