SRF cuts cultural offerings
Among other things, SRF Kultur is cutting the "Fiori musicali" program. Kulturplatz" will receive less money and there will be fewer concert broadcasts. The Swiss Syndicate of Media Professionals (SSM) is alarmed.
Like the large Swiss publishing houses, "SRG is subjecting itself to market logic" and making large-scale savings on cultural reporting in all parts of the country, writes the SSM.
In French-speaking Switzerland, the redesign of cultural radio station Espace 2 was completed in spring 2020. The former cultural station now broadcasts a music program. Audio and video contributions can increasingly be found online.
According to SSM, the cultural broadcaster Rete Due in Italian-speaking Switzerland is facing the same fate. The Lyra project that has been launched envisages a radical reorientation of the cultural offering. Word contributions are to be significantly reduced and background programs eliminated.
At SRF Kultur, too, there is no end to the cutbacks in the cultural sector; other programs are being cut (Nachtflug, fiori musicali), have to realign themselves (Kulturplatz, Kontext) and receive less funding (Kulturplatz, DOK, Sternstunden etc.).
The SSM calls on the SRG to stop the cultural clear-cutting, to respect the concession and to better involve staff in the transformation process.
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