News employees at RadioNL in Kamloops have been fired

Kamloops is without a news radio broadcaster for the first time in decades. Members of the newsroom at RadioNL were terminated today, Sept. 24, according to a social media post by CHNL employee Brett Mineer.  Mineer wouldn't immediately comment on the firings. It appeared to be a surprise move and the news programming was operating as normal Tuesday morning until the station suddenly cut to music. Around 11 a.m., what was supposed to be the syndicated Mike Smyth Show was replaced with classic rock. The station is still broadcasting brief The Canadian Press news updates. Radio station 610 AM has been broadcasting in the Kamloops area since 1970, and was owned by NL Broadcasting Inc. until 1993. Newcap Broadcasting bought the station until it was sold to Stingray Group Inc. in 2018 https://broadcasting-history.ca/radio/radio-stations/british-columbia/british-columbia-central/chnl-am/ . Stingray Group, which owns several other FM radio stations around Canada, did not immediately respond to questions about the decision. The move by Stingray comes 11 months after Kamloops This Week published its last newspaper.    Well - the entire Radio NL newsroom has been terminated. So - ya. #Kamloops https://twitter.com/hashtag/Kamloops?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw — Brett Mineer (@MineerBrett) September 24, 2024 https://twitter.com/MineerBrett/status/1838629688614490211?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw   The closure of RadioNL’s newsroom is just bad news for local journalism. @RadioNLNews https://twitter.com/RadioNLNews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw has long been a trusted source of information for the community, and @MineerBrett https://twitter.com/MineerBrett?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw voice has been a steady presence in their lives. — David Eby (@Dave_Eby) September 24, 2024 https://twitter.com/Dave_Eby/status/1838643180859953373?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw   To contact a reporter for this story, email Levi Landry mailto:llandry@infonews.ca  or call 250-819-3723 or email the editor mailto:news@infonews.ca . You can also submit photos, videos or news tips to the newsroom mailto:tips@infonews.ca  and be entered to win a monthly prize draw. We welcome your comments and opinions on our stories but play nice. We won't censor or delete comments unless they contain off-topic statements or links, unnecessary vulgarity, false facts, spam or obviously fake profiles. If you have any concerns about what you see in comments, email the editor in the link above. SUBSCRIBE to our awesome newsletter here https://infotel.ca/newsletter .