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Radicova: STV and SRo Will Merge
Monday 11 Octtber 2010 Zoom in | Print page
Bratislava, October 11 (TASR) - Prime Minister Iveta Radicova (SDKU-DS) after a Coalition Council session on Monday evening revealed that in order to resolve the problematic situation in the public-service Slovak Television (STV) a merger with the broadcaster Slovak Radio (SRo) is called for.
Radicova indicated that the whole project should be launched in January, assuming that no problems in the legislative process occur.
"STV has been repeatedly facing debts; but this would be a minor problem if the public-service television was meeting its main role ... Trojka (Channel 3) isn't broadcasting live sports events. Especially when we wanted to watch the (EURO 2012 qualifying) football (match) against Armenia, it was a private broadcaster (TV Markiza) that aired it. This obviously isn't okay," said Radicova, adding that STV has too few original programmes and too many contracts with external firms.
According to Radicova, Culture Minister Daniel Krajcer (SaS) should prepare a draft of legislation to tackle the current situation within a week.
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