TVA Group has cut 30 jobs, primarily in its TV division, according to a release from the Quebecor-owned company on Wednesday (May 21).

The cuts follow the release of Quebecor’s Q1 2025 results, in which TVA Group recorded a negative adjusted EBITDA of $20.5 million for the three months that ended March 31. Quebecor did not provide further details on the cut positions.

In February 2023, the company underwent a larger restructuring in which 240 jobs were eliminated, including 140 at TVA and 100 at Quebecor entities that provide services to TVA, following a $300,000 TVA loss in Q4 2022.

Later in November of that year, TVA eliminated 31% of its workforce, or 547 positions, including 300 in-house production roles, 98 in operations and 149 across other departments. That restructuring plan also saw TVA ceasing its in-house production operations.

“TVA Group, like other private broadcasters, is operating in a steadily deteriorating business environment and continues to absorb substantial financial losses while competing on an uneven playing field,” said Quebecor president and CEO Pierre Karl Péladeau in a statement.

Péladeau noted that TVA Group’s net loss over the past three years now stands at $76.1 million, despite rising market share, as its advertising and subscription revenues drop. Péladeau went on to attribute the decrease to a lineup of causes, including CRTC policy and the rise of U.S.-based streamers in the Canadian marketplace.

“For too long, the CRTC and public authorities have unthinkingly given [U.S.-based streamers] free rein, without acknowledging their real impact on our broadcasting system,” said Péladeau. “Meanwhile, Canadian broadcasters must meet licensing requirements and unnecessarily restrictive regulatory burdens in order to operate.

“The unlicensed American online services have been causing the initially slow and now quickening downfall of Canadian broadcasting,” he continued. “Operating outside regulatory constraints, they are destabilizing Canada’s broadcasting ecosystem, accentuating changes in viewing habits and contributing to the erosion of viewing and advertising revenues on traditional platforms.”

Additionally, Péladeau called for the recently sworn-in Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture Steven Guilbeault to implement previous recommendations to CBC/Radio-Canada advertising policy. In February, former Canadian Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge proposed banning advertising on all CBC/Radio-Canada news content. This echoed aspects of the 2020 Broadcasting and Telecommunications Legislative Review’s final report, which recommended gradually removing advertising on CBC/Radio-Canada platforms over a five-year period.

Péladeau also pointed at recent funding reductions for the Canada Media Fund, which he noted have resulted in a net loss of almost $5 million, or about a third of TVA’s funding in 2025-26.

When asked, Quebecor noted that Péladeau was unavailable for further comment.

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