SRF cuts 102 jobs and drops Swiss Award from its program
As part of the SRG cost-cutting program, 102 positions will be eliminated at SRF. SRF announced on Thursday that the cuts will primarily affect the technical and support departments.
But there are also cutbacks in the program. For example, the Swiss Award will be discontinued from 2017. The cost-cutting measures should be felt as little as possible by the public. However, individual cuts to the program are unavoidable, it is said.
There will also be fewer new productions from 2016. This will affect "Puls", "Einstein", "Sportlounge"/"Sport aktuell", "Aeschbacher" and "Kulturplatz" to the tune of around six editions per year. There will be fewer in-house produced shows on Saturday evenings in future. The Swiss Award will be on the program for the last time in January 2016. (SDA)
