In the “Rainer-Nowak-Talk” on krone.tv, ORF General Roland Weißmann, Green Media spokeswoman Eva Blimlinger, Kurt Egger (ÖVP) and SPÖ board member Heinz Lederer spoke.
Election campaign in the hot phase. The ORF is also a problem. What should happen after the elections? “In some states we have become 45 percent cheaper,” says General Weißmann, who contradicts the criticism. “The ORF also has to save 320 million in four years. We have started with this. And we have to get closer to the citizens.” In this respect, a new format will soon be introduced: “A place speaks”. This is important, because up to 70 percent watch the ORF news.
The ORF Act was amended and the online section was expanded. Weißmann would like to see more cooperation between the private and public sectors to secure the media location.
Supervisory Board member Heinz Lederer said that one had to be careful not to let the ORF get under the wheels. “We still have a lot to do. Good journalism costs money.” There was a dispute between the Black Egger and the Red Lederer. Who is harming the ORF? Blimlinger also got involved. The fact that the SPÖ voted against the ORF law was “fatal,” said Blimlinger, who would have preferred to be financed through the budget rather than through taxes. Lederer criticized the government: “You have helped yourself to the needy and the poor. We wanted these people to be excluded.”
There was also talk of smaller committees and leaner structures; there is an imbalance between the public council and the foundation council.
Sports rights were also the subject of emotional debate. The European Football Championship was only shown to a limited extent. Egger: “You can’t save money and then buy all the rights.” Weißmann adds: “We can only spend what we have. But we share football or Formula 1 rights with ServusTV, for example.” There are satisfaction surveys. Not everyone is. “We have to improve and we are working on it.” The FPÖ wants to dissolve the ORF in its current form, Nowak intervenes. “You can ask whether we are careful with our money, but if we don’t have it, nobody has it. Then a lot is lost in the cultural country of Austria. We broadcast 500 hours of art and culture in the summer, which five million people watched.”
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Source: Krone
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