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The Union's SME Association (MIT) apparently wants to completely reorganize public broadcasting.
The »Welt« reports that among others the head of MIT, Carsten Linnemann, the parliamentary managing director of the CSU, Stefan Müller, and the competition economist Justus Haucap have met a total of six times since 2019 to discuss a reform of ARD and ZDF.
However, former executives of the broadcasters themselves as well as media politicians from the CDU and CSU from the federal and state levels were also involved.
Die Welt quotes from a paper according to which those involved consider broadcasting generally to be too fragmented, too expensive and too redundant in its structures.
The program no longer follows the actual order.
In addition, it is criticized that the citizens' contribution money is used to produce content that is also produced by private providers.
According to the report, the paper literally states: “In future there will only be ONE public broadcasting corporation.
The previous broadcasters are to merge under this roof.
Multiple structures should be eliminated. «This would mean that ARD and ZDF would become a large broadcasting company in the future.
The Union's SME Association does not speak for the entire CDU / CSU.
However, your advance shows how much ARD and ZDF are now coming under pressure in certain political circles.
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