06. 06. 2002

MORE REDUNDANCIES AHEAD FOR STATE MEDIA

BELGRADE, June 6, 2002 – The general director of Radio Television Serbia, Aleksandar Crkvenjakov, said last night that several hundred employees would soon be made redundant. “So far, 1,500 people have left and we will define the number of redundant personnel within the next month. This will reduce the number o RTS employees to between 3,500 and 4,000, as many as there were in the seventies, when we were a successful company,” said Crkvenjakov. Pointing out that there is no censorship of the RTS program, Crkvenjakov said that the company lacked experienced, capable people, explaining that the those employed over the past ten years were not selected through open competition but through connections. Speaking on the program Open Studio, Crkvenjakov announced that RTV Novi Sad and RTV Pristina would be split off into separate, independent companies.