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[A-DX] Bratislava macht dicht

  • Subject: [A-DX] Bratislava macht dicht
  • From: Wolf Harranth <harranth@xxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 23:54:26 +0200
       Slovak public radio to end shortwave foreign language
       broadcasting in July

Text of report by Slovak newspaper Sme on 12 July
Bratislava: Slovak Radio (SRo) will lay off 84 employees and will end foreign language broadcasting on shortwave by the end of July. The SRo management wants to cut costs and make up for revenue shortfalls in this way. The number of the public broadcaster's employees will go down to an all-time low of 825. The SRo management has also halted all investment projects.
The SRo's shortwave foreign language broadcasting will be replaced by broadcasting through the Internet. "Since we estimate this year's revenue shortfall from subscribers' fees at 400m korunas [Slovak crowns] and from the state budget at 130m korunas, these measures have become unavoidable," said SRo Director-General Jaroslav Reznik.
The radio wants to save some 130m korunas by the end of the year in this way, of which more than 16m korunas will be savings in wage costs, after the deduction of severance pay. "The loss of 150m korunas that we posted in the first six months of this year therefore should not markedly increase," Reznik said.
(Source: Sme, Bratislava, in Slovak 12 Jul 05 p 2 via BBC Monitoring via Andy Sennitt in Media Network Weblog) 
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