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Radio-Canada has announced a reorganization of its programming service. As of September, its Youth service, headed by Michel Lavoie, will be known as the Youth and Family service. The expanded department will produce family programs as well as ethical and religious shows, including Le Jour du Seigneur, Second Regard and En toute liberte.

The Variety department, headed by Paul Dupont-Hebert, has been renamed Culture and Variety. Cultural programs, arts magazines and lifestyle programs will now come under Dupont-Hebert’s authority, including La Ruee vers l’art, Sous la couverture, a popular literary magazine, La Semaine verte and Des jardins d’aujourd’hui.

Changes slated for Culture and Societe, headed by Andre Menard, are being studied, says Charles Ohayon, Radio-Canada’s director-general of programs.

The reorganization follows last month’s announcement by Michele Fortin, Radio-Canada’s v-p, French television, that the broadcaster intends to reduce staff by 750 through layoffs and attrition over three years. LRB