I guess what I'm hearing from you is the same argument you just used against the broadcasters. You said the broadcasters are making major money from all their speciality services and they want to pin it all on local, and then you turn around and tell me that local is losing you money, but don't count the other streams of revenue. You have record profits. You bought these stations two years ago, and now you want to cut local programming and still tell your shareholders that everything is fine.
It seems to me the public has a hard time believing that a company as smart financially as Rogers would have bought those stations without knowing what it would cost, and a year and a half later be trying to dodge those commitments.