The axe fell at CityTV today. Sources tell us that on-air personalities Anne Mroczkowski and Lara DiBattista are gone as well as a number of writers, producers, editors and camera people. 35 full time staff in total. Multiple shows have been canceled.

The list we have so far includes:

Anne Mroczowski

Laura Di Battista

Pam Seatle

Marian Dimain

Merella Fernandez

Farah Nasser

Michael Serapio

2 graphics

4 producers

2 assignment producers

7 camera

6 editors

1 cg

We'll have more details here as we get them.

UPDATE 1

Lots of Twitter action on this one.

Follow the conversation here. The best tweet has to go to the CTV PR department (see screenshot of retweet below) who I guess had second thoughts and subsequently deleted the tweet from their Twitter feed.



UPDATE 2

Also, the noon and 5pm news shows are gone as is some weekend news and City News International.

UPDATE 3

CP24 just announced they have expanded their local news coverage

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