From the beginning of June till mid October 2001, the RCI newsroom was empty on weekends…….no journalist and no announcer producer was permitted to work at keeping the world up to date on Canadian news on the weekend. All RCI produced newscasts, and all live programming were cut as part of the “Redeployment Plan that continues to be implemented.

Newscasts returned on the weekend of October 13/14, 2001, but the integration continues, Details Also check out our FLASHBACK on RCI’s international mandate here and how it’s been affected by the “redeployment” and “integration” of RCI.