SRG has drawn up a roadmap for structural reform
SRG is examining whether its management structures and governing body still meet today's requirements. An evaluation group is tasked with conducting an assessment and developing recommendations for improvement by summer 2008. Former SBB CEO Benedikt Weibel will serve as an expert on the group.
SRG is examining whether its own management structures and ownership still meet today's requirements. An evaluation group is to carry out an assessment by summer 2008 and draw up proposals for improvement. The review was requested by the Federal Council on the occasion of its licensing decision at the end of November, SRG announced on Tuesday. Together with the Federal Office for the Environment, Transport, Energy and Communications (Uvek), SRG has now drawn up a timetable for the review. The SRG may take the lead in the reform project and thus effectively reform itself. The Federal Office of Communications (OFCOM) will be "highly represented" in the project, as the press release goes on to say.
SRG has brought in prominent reinforcement as experts for conceptual issues: Benedikt Weibel, former head of SBB and current Euro 08 delegate of the Federal Council, will moderate a contact and evaluation group and carry out an assessment by summer 2008. The results of this group will then be submitted to the regional boards of directors for their opinion.
Following approval by the Assembly of Delegates and the Uvek, the necessary amendments to the statutes and organizational regulations will be made in 2009. The SRG did not mention in its press release whether the structural reform is possibly aimed at merging Swiss Television and Radio DRS, as various press reports implied a few weeks ago.
SRG has brought in prominent reinforcement as experts for conceptual issues: Benedikt Weibel, former head of SBB and current Euro 08 delegate of the Federal Council, will moderate a contact and evaluation group and carry out an assessment by summer 2008. The results of this group will then be submitted to the regional boards of directors for their opinion.
Following approval by the Assembly of Delegates and the Uvek, the necessary amendments to the statutes and organizational regulations will be made in 2009. The SRG did not mention in its press release whether the structural reform is possibly aimed at merging Swiss Television and Radio DRS, as various press reports implied a few weeks ago.
