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SRo: It Isn't Possible to Manage Radio and Television in Same Way
Tuesday 12 Octtber 2010 Zoom in | Print page
Bratislava, October 12 (TASR) - According to state broadcaster Slovak Television (STV), the decision to merge STV with Slovak Radio (SRo) as announced by Culture and Tourism Minister Daniel Krajcer (Freedom and Solidarity/SaS) on Tuesday provokes more questions than it answers.
"The STV management will take a stance on this," STV spokesman Peter Susko told TASR on the same day, adding that it wants to read the proposal first.
SRo pointed out that the two institutions can't be managed in the same way. Its spokesperson Alexandra Stullerova-Korenova also said that the radio broadcaster wants to have the documents in its hands before commenting.
"Both models work in European countries - unified media and individual institutions - both models have their positives, but also their downsides. We don't know what the Government's solution is," Stullerova-Korenova told TASR. According to her, SRo will expect Krajcer to invite one of its representatives into the expert group that is supposed to prepare the new concept - as he promised recently.
According to the proposal, the range of broadcasting will be reduced from the current six radio stations to four in the case of SRo, while only two out of the three STV channels will remain in place after the change.
The minister was fully supported by his party's coalition partners. The ministry and the Government believe that there is no other way to resolve the catastrophic situation at STV, claimed Krajcer, blaming STV general director Stefan Niznansky and the STV Board for the broadcaster's woes.
Krajcer argues that if he hadn't come up with this solution, it would have been necessary to start speaking about the privatisation of STV, a topic that wouldn't have avoided SRo either.
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