Now, after fearsome public backlash over LaFlamme’s departure, Bell executives have been forced to reckon with their own business model. Within months of Bell’s purchase of CTV, the company’s executives were flipping through an unflattering balance sheet. ‘Cope’s right-hand man’Long before he took over at Bell Media, Oosterman played high school basketball with Cope — his close friend and, eventually, his boss. Whatever tactics worked in the wireless division could be applied in the media division, too, the company’s executives reckoned. Mass cuts at Bell Media could reliably blend in with the deluge of downsizing that has so typically dogged the news industry.

Source: thestar September 10, 2022 06:54 UTC