New reorganisation plan for Radio Netherlands
This is the text of the news item currently running on our Web site and in our English newscasts:
Radio Netherlands has presented a new reorganisation plan. An earlier proposal in January this year was rejected by the personnel and the unions, largely because of the substantial job losses envisioned.
The new plan involves savings of 3.5 million euros and cuts seventeen jobs. Daytime radio transmissions to Europe in Dutch will be radically reduced and there will be less shortwave broadcasts in other languages. The television programme Studio NL, broadcast by the Dutch-Flemish satellite channel BVN, will be scrapped. The reorganisation also provides for new activities, including an Arabic website for the Middle East.
In case you're wondering why this isn't mentioned on our Media Newsdesk page yet, most of us saw the plan for the first time this afternoon, and I had to read it first!
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