SF and Radio DRS: merger planned

2010 will be a year of major upheaval for SRG: Radio DRS and Swiss Television SF will be merged organizationally. Important activities will be merged - and the two SRG companies will now have a joint director. This is the result of research by the Sonntag newspaper. Today, Ingrid Deltenre and Walter Rüegg have their own directors. However, both heads are holding out the prospect of stepping down in two years' time, as are SRG Chairman of the Board of Directors Jean-Bernard Münch, SRG Director General Armin Walpen and his deputy Daniel Eckmann, who, according to Sonntag, is toying with the idea of taking early retirement. Before this coordinated multi-pack resignation takes place, the bosses are pushing ahead with the "convergence project". Radio director Rüegg says: "Parts of IT, accounting and HR can easily be concentrated." The Ticino region, where such a project is already underway, serves as a model. The aim is to exploit synergies.