[LINK] "Rogers axes OMNI news programs, cancels Breakfast Television in Edmonton"

[rfmcdonald]

CBC News notes the decline of some prominent non-English television programs in Canada. Is this a marker of the decline of television generally, and the shift to online sources?

Rogers Media has cancelled multicultural news programs in Ontario and B.C. and will replace them with new current affairs programming targeting the same audience.

On Thursday, Rogers Media said in a release that it will air three new half-hour current affairs programs that will air in multiple languages in the 8:30 to 10 p.m. timeslot. The new shows will be hosted by "veteran OMNI Television on-air personalities," Rogers said.

Those shows will replace 30-minute newscasts that used to air weeknights on OMNI's local channels. Unifor, one of the largest media unions in the country, said Rogers is also cancelling V-Mix and Bollywood Boulevard, two English-language programs for South Asian audiences.