Communications, Energy: Peter Murdoch

Peter Murdoch: Instead of investing some of the $12 billion it earned last year, Rogers has reduced news to and for a variety of ethnic communities, said Communications, Energy and Paperworkers vice-president for media Peter Murdoch, according to The Star. Murdoch said it also made performance commitments to South Asian and other ethnic communities that will see reduced service due to the production cuts at OMNI and A decision to slash production at OMNI TV flies in the face of Rogers Medias commitment to boost multicultural programming, says the union representing about 35 Toronto-area workers affected by the cuts. He said Toronto-based Rogers received regulatory flexibility from the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission to ensure that it could meet demand for linguistic diversity while maintaining a viable business model. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.