Good for Global people who find work elsewhere. But Shaw seems like most of the on-air people are pulled off the street, and people probably aren’t leaving because they’re not what the big channels are looking for. Some don’t seem to even have any training. I remember watching Channel 11 and seeing an awful NFL talk show with some hacks who couldn’t stop laughing. At what? Nobody knows. I thought they stopped doing cable access, but I heard the show is still going.

It’s shocking that Global employees are still continuing to work and haven’t quit yet. Watching Larkins come back is like seeing people trying to climb aboard the Titanic as it was sinking. Wasn’t he at CTV?? That’s the story I want to hear about.

Where other stations have been cutting back every chance they can.

If you keep your career goals modest and enjoy the light content they produce, Shaw is the brass ring for TV jobs.

TORONTO – Canwest Global Communications Corp. (TSX:CGS) employee Patrick Vanderburg is working for a company that he believes will owe him $95,000 in severance and vacation pay when he’s laid off later this year.

But he fears he won’t see a cent of it because parts of the media conglomerate – including his division – filed for creditor protection earlier this week, essentially locking up all future severance payments to its employees, including Vanderburg who loses his job in December.

“My wife works part-time and I’ve got four kids, so you know, Merry Christmas,” said the 45-year-old program co-ordinator of CHBC-TV station in Kelowna, B.C. in a phone interview on Wednesday.

The whole story is at: http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/MediaNews/2009/10/07/11336996-cp.html

These companies have never been structured well to begin with. That’s why there’s such a lack of surprise when major newspapers in the States go under, and why the Free Press is essentially eliminating their Sunday edition.

This is only the beginning of the storm, folks. Global is only delivering the first blow. Many more to come, and probably felt by all, regardless of where you work.

This sort of thing has happened at CTV, CBC, Global, CKX, and City TV – not to mention radio. I’d hate to be one of those CreComm students, seeing a bleak future in working for the local media.