Malcolm Dunlop is leaving Rogers Media as its top programming exec on Aug. 30.
The departure follows news last week that Claire Freeland, director of programming at the Canadian broadcaster, is leaving, with her last day on Sept. 30.
Sources at Rogers Media indicate that details on the evolving programming suite at City and its sister TV stations in the Rogers fold will be announced in the coming weeks.
Dunlop, as executive vice president of TV programming and operations, in recent years increased the primetime ratings at City with a string of U.S. comedies like Two Broke Girls and New Girl.
The conventional channel also rolled out new Canadian series like Seed, Bachelor Canada and the upcoming Storage Wars Canada.
Dunlop joined Rogers’ broadcast arm in 1985 with OMNI Television.
From Playback Daily
Sorry to see Malcolm leave; he is a good guy. But, all good things come to an end sooner or later. For example, CHUM has had a lot of long-time, big salary, big expense people shown the door recently in favour of less experienced people who can do the same job. Senior Management looks at how much this saves in expenses.
“Can do the same job”? Seriously?? Less experienced people doing the “same job” would be incorrect. Less experienced people dumped in those positions to do the same job would be more in line with reality. It is people across the fence who will have to deal with this pathetic lack of expertise.
Ummm Malcolm joined CHANNEL 47 CFMT. It was not OMNI and it was not owned by Rogers.