After a difficult year financially, Bell Canada Enterprises (BCE) is reshuffling the cards within of its high authorities. In office since 2019, Montrealer Karine Moses is leaving the management of Bell Media and will take charge of another sector of the company. Bell’s media activities in Quebec will now be managed from Toronto.
Karine Moses’ time at Bell Media was marked by the acquisition of channel V, which became Noovo. She also played a leading role in the merger between Bell and Grandé Studios.
In 2020, she was promoted to president of the Quebec department for all of Bell, a title that she combined with that of senior vice-president of content and news development. Karine Moses, who has worked within BCE since 1997, remains the company’s big boss in Quebec. But it will no longer be attached to the Bell Media subsidiary. The Montreal native is named first vice-president of SMEs and the Internet Companies Group.
“His appointment to this strategic position will allow Bell to focus more on the residential services market in Quebec in order to increase its market share in this key province,” the company simply indicated in an email sent to Duty Tuesday.
Suzane Landry, who is number two at Bell Media in Quebec, remains in office. But she will now report to Stewart Johnston, Bell Media’s senior vice-president of content and sales for all of Canada. The latter, who is based in Toronto, “knows Quebec well,” we took care to specify. Before all these changes in management, Stewart Johnston already headed the sports channel RDS. The position occupied by Karine Moses at Bell Media therefore no longer exists as such. Bell indicates that these changes to its organizational chart are not linked to recent cutbacks.
In February, BCE announced the elimination of 4,800 positions across the country, including installation technicians and office workers. These cuts are presented as the most important plan restructuring of the telecommunications giant in almost 30 years. The Bell Media subsidiary, which, like its competitors, is facing falling advertising revenues, was also affected by these layoffs.
Remember that Bell has initiated the process to sell nearly half of its radio stations, including seven in Quebec. On the RDS side, the abolition of 25 to 35 technician positions is expected, which represents approximately 10% of the sports channel’s workforce.