Some 27 employees at CBC Television in Ottawa received lay-off notices today.

Some of the familiar faces on Newsday will be off the air this fall, including sportscaster Moby Chaudry, and reporters Chris Goldrick and Sean Upton.

They are among the 235 people cut from CBC TV Stations across the country.

CBC management wants to save $15 million a year.

16 people who work on CBOT's Newsday were called into the manager's office this morning to receive their lay-off notices.

The cuts affect reporters, camera people, editors and producers. Other CBC employees including promotional and advertising staff were also let go.

CBOT manager, Phil Jenkins had to deliver the news.

"It's a very sad exercise ... many of the people will have rights of redeployment and then still find work within the CBC, and many will not. It's going to be a tough time."

The cuts are part of a country-wide transformation of supper-hour news.

Arthur Lewis is a Newsday reporter and local president of the Canadian Media Guild.

He has reservations about how the new, leaner system will work.

"Morale has been terrible for months because, first of all, the president of the CBC was dissing what we did and of course the announcement of the supper-hour programs being cut to half-an-hour ... we've been waiting for the details in terms of staff cuts and so on."

Starting in October, the national news will come at 6 p.m. from Vancouver. It will then be followed at 6:30 p.m. by a half hour local news program.

But there are more changes to come.

CBC's vice-president of TV, Harold Redekopp, says there will also be lay-offs in management and administration.