The Canadian Broadcasting Corp. (CBC) will cut 244 jobs from its local news operations countrywide including 25 employees in B.C., the public broadcaster announced March 26.
The cuts include 144 positions from its English-language operations and 100 jobs in its French-language division.
No stations are set to close and the CBC intends to keep the relative size of its regional operations the same.
The broadcaster still has about 1,100 people in 29 stations across the country, plus a service in the North.
"Where we're going with our local services is really prioritizing towards digital," CBC News general manager and editor-in-chief Jennifer McGuire said on the broadcaster's website.
"That's in recognition of where the audience is going; they're migrating to digital, as we know in the news business."
She said that the cuts to local news, which will save about $15 million, are part of a broader "2020 plan," which was announced in June.
CBC announced at the time that, due to reduced government funding and a drop in advertising revenues, it would shed between 1,000 and 1,500 jobs by 2020.
