The president of the Vancouver Island company buying 21 B.C. radio stations from Bell Media says there won’t be any closures or layoffs.
Vista Radio president Bryan Edwards says the stations — mainly in the Okanagan and provinces’s northwest, northeast and southeast corners — have a total of about 80 employees and he believes some are understaffed.
Bell Media’s parent company BCE earlier announced widespread layoffs and the sale of 45 of its 103 regional radio stations across the country, as well as ending multiple television newscasts and making other programming cuts.