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CBC explains decision to cut local broadcasts

Briefs | 01/12/2021 7:16 pm EST

On the second day of the CRTC’s hearings into the CBC/Radio-Canada license renewal, CBC executives detailed the lead up to the broadcaster’s much-criticized decision to cut local news broadcasts across the country in the early days of the pandemic. 

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