Spectator: The bankruptcy of Channel 11 Limited Partnership appears to have negated the company's obligations under the collective agreement signed with the union which would have governed such issues as severance, notice and seniority rights. Now bankrupt. There's no need to do that now that she no longer works for the station, where she spent almost 15 years of her broadcasting career. Spectator: Does Channel Zero Inc. consider the new company to be a successor company to Channel 11 Limited Partnership? The CRTC was having a hard time understanding how the licence holders could be operating the channels when Channel Zero's own testimony showed that the licensed companies were financially inactive, had no employees and no assets other than the broadcasting lease. Channel Zero responds to Spectator questions On top of that, if the voting control of the majority of shares changes, a "tangible benefits fee," representing 10 per cent of the transaction, has to be paid to the CRTC. In addition, D'Andrea was handed his three-year employment contract worth $300,000 in total. The hearing was held April 28, 2014 at the CRTC's headquarters in Gatineau. After doing some math related to the proportions allocated to the different channels, the CRTC ordered Channel Zero to pay a tangible benefits fee of $121,000, broken into three equal annual instalments. What is/was Channel 11 Limited Partnership's relationship to Channel Zero Inc.? Ironically, perhaps, Channel Zero's principals appeared before the CRTC on Jan. 25 to make a presentation as part of a weeklong policy review of the framework for local and community programming. "This is a show cause hearing. Eventually, the CRTC had to weigh in and approve a new ownership structure for some of the licence-holding companies. Spectator: What is the name of the new company that has hired the former Channel 11 LP employees to provide content for CHCH? A corporate profile for the company shows an incorporation date of Nov. 23, 2015. "I'm not sure what the future holds," said former sportscaster Ken Welch. "Your questions contain numerous inaccuracies," Millar stated in an email response. How long had the station been running at a loss of more than $130,000 a week? television system. Toronto Star articles, please go to: www.TorontoStarReprints.com. Licence holder for CHCH and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Channel Zero parent company. Nearly 130 full-time and almost 40 part-time employees of CHCH were left jobless Friday in the wake of Channel 11 Limited Partnership's stunning bankruptcy announcement. Millar, Podzyhun, D'Andrea and Balde each owned 12.5 per cent of the company. I don't write every letter that my signature goes on.". Spectator: An earlier statement by Mr. Fuoco suggested that the new privately held numbered company that hired some of the employees back does not have Channel Zero as its parent company. Channel Zero Inc. acquired CHCH TV from Canwest Television Limited Partnership in 2009. In 2012, the company attempted unsuccessfully to obtain a licence in the U.K. for a digital station that was to be called Metro8 Edinburgh. The email, apparently sent to a prospective advertising client by Kathleen Marks, stated "we just needed to disband the previous company and form a new one where changes could be made, free from old Union employees and their demands and free from carry-over debt of CanWest.". The questions were an attempt to learn more about the corporate structure and ownership of some of the companies that are now in the spotlight with the recent bankruptcy filing of Channel 11 Limited Partnership. routine. - The Spectator's View: CHCH a victim of changing media landscape, - Former employees of Channel 11 LP owed $1.62M by bankrupt company, - 'It's just a great loss': What CHCH will look like after job cuts, Copyright owned or licensed by Toronto Star Newspapers Limited. "We are engaged in a dialogue with Unifor to transition former employees of Channel 11 LP into the new company," Fuoco stated. Under Ontario law, businesses must honour existing collective agreements when they take over a company unless they dramatically change the nature of the work being performed. Hebscher remembers asking. Hebscher had missed the roll call splitting staff up into those who had survived the bankruptcy announcement and those who hadn't. Bankruptcy documents showed former employees were owed $1.62 million. Now, those employees who weren't hired back will be limited to a maximum payout of $3,800 through the federal government's Wage Earner Protection Program. But within a few years of Channel Zero's creation, tensions were already building between the four owners, leading to an acrimonious lawsuit that took nearly a decade to settle. Fuoco: We are engaged with Unifor and have actively been in dialogue with them since last Friday. If the new company was deemed by a court to be a continuation of the now-bankrupt company, it would have to abide by the terms of the previous contractual agreements. The bankrupt company listed nearly $4.5 million in liabilities versus just $60,000 in assets. To order copies of Millar also acknowledged that some of Channel Zero's licence-holding companies didn't hold formal annual board meetings or keep minutes of the meetings, which are possible violations under Ontario's Corporations Act. 85 per cent owned by Channel Zero parent company. "I was fortunate to do something I loved," Welch said. At the time, four different companies held the licences for Movieola, Silver Screen Classics and the three porn channels — each had its own ownership structure. A transcript of the hearing shows that CRTC chair Jean-Pierre Blais was exasperated by the confusing testimonies of Millar, Podzyhun and Fuoco as he attempted to get them to explain the convoluted corporate structure and the relationships that existed between the licence holders and third-party companies. Millar described it as a "duplication of effort.". 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In one affidavit, Millar alleged that Balde had breached his duties owed to Channel Zero and accused him of "internal espionage, improper disclosure of corporate secrets, and conspiracy to subvert management of the corporation by unlawful means.". "Matters relating to successor employment are part of that dialogue.". The Spectator sent several questions Tuesday to Channel Zero Inc., the parent company that owns and operates CHCH TV. Channel Zero's presentation suggested CHCH could take on some of the roles and responsibilities currently undertaken by Cable 14. "Some of the correct information can be found in the public domain. "Kathleen is not a spokesperson for the company and she doesn't have any insight into leadership decisions. Can he provide a cumulative figure of losses over the past quarter, for example, or the past year? "I don't think it began as an end run around the collective agreement, I think it came about because there was some desperate financial times.". Millar declined to comment to The Spectator. Star Newspapers Limited and/or its licensors. We could either go dark permanently, cease operations entirely and lay off all employees OR go through the very difficult restructuring as we have, maintain news operations and employ as many of the former employees as we could, on a sustainable basis. Fuoco: CHCH has a management contract with the new employer, and CHCH will compensate the new company for the services it provides. Channel Zero declined to comment on the CRTC hearing. "It was typical of the way they did business.". "Our revenues could not sustain the very high level of local news programming we offered and we faced the real likelihood of going dark, something we helped the station avoid in 2009," Fuoco said. He was eventually bought out and negotiated a three-year employment contract with Channel Zero that pays him $100,000 a year. The four founders of Channel Zero were Cal Millar, Romen Podzyhun, Anthony D'Andrea and Harold Balde, each starting with a 25 per cent share of the company. A leaked email by a CHCH TV account manager suggests that a subsidiary company was taken into bankruptcy Friday to help the television station avoid its contractual obligations to unionized employees under the collective bargaining agreement.

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