One day after Canwest Global unveiled another round of cost cuts and job losses, it’s becoming clearer where the ax will fall.

Dramatic content at Global Television, E! and the 26 specialty channels will lose staff, but it’s regional news-gathering divisions, especially at E! stations and newspapers, that will take the brunt of the cuts.

Canwest had no comment Thursday on where specific cuts will be made, except to reiterate a statement by company CEO Leonard Asper on Thursday that the media group will not compromise its products and services for Canadians.

But overall, 210 broadcast jobs are to be chopped, either through employee buyouts, attrition or layoffs.

CHCH-TV Hamilton will lose 14 positions, including entertainment reporter Kate Stutsman and news anchor James McDonald. The Hamilton, ON station will also close its Oakville bureau.

Gone also is Global Television’s morning news show, to be replaced by a simulcast of CHCH’s Morning Live with Bob Cowan and Annette Hamm from Hamilton. Canwest will also delay by a year plans to shift CHCH studio production at a broadcast center in Toronto.

In Victoria, 18 jobs, including newsroom and commercial production staff, are to be lost at CHEK-TV, which will be left with 40 employees after having already moved its control room to Vancouver.

And CHBC-TV Kelowna has apparently cut 23 staff, with CHEK-TV called on to provide newscasts to the interior B.C. station.

Another four jobs are gone in Vancouver, and three more in Winnipeg, where Canwest maintains its headquarters.

Communications teams at both Global and E! stations are also facing an unspecified number of layoffs.

Already this year, Canwest cut 50 jobs at its Winnipeg broadcast center after digital control was moved to Toronto, and another 14 employees were lost at Global Television’s Winnipeg station.

Peter Murdoch, VP of media at the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada, which represents Canwest Global employees, said the broadcaster should shed assets, not jobs, to weather its financial storm.

‘Canwest is a company too heavily burdened by debt to meet the challenge of a recession,’ Murdoch said. ‘The Aspers should consider their employees, consumers, advertisers and shareholders and sell off their properties,’ he added.

Canwest Global, which is to release its fourth-quarter results on Friday, saw its shares fall another 4% Thursday on the Toronto Stock Exchange to $0.82.