ARD plans massive cultural reduction: The public service broadcaster introduces another reform concept and continues to saw on the branch on which it sits.
The criticism of the GEZ-paying spectators at the meaning and purpose of the center uses is likely to be louder.
Yesterday evening the ARD communicated its further reform steps to the public, for example in a press release from the German Cultural Council .
Fortunately, it can be learned that the barrier -low options should be further developed. German sign language , audio description and easy -to -understand language in the community programs by 2025
an important negative aspect is that reporting on culture in the traditional program should be severely limited.
on the radio will radiate a common program from 8 p.m. to midnight.

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The cultural and classical broadcasters as well as the pop channels of the regional broadcasters are to be increasingly fusing programmatically from the second quarter of 2024.
Radio plays , a central genre of the radio, are to be produced mainly for auditoriums in the future and no longer for the regular program.
The third programs of the ARD should also produce joint programs.
Ultimately, all of this means that the range of different cultural programs is significantly reduced.
The managing director of the German Cultural Council, Olaf Zimmermann , expressed his concern that the cultural diversity on radio and the third television programs should be severely restricted in order to clear funds for digital offers.
However, the ARD describes this degradation of culture euphemistically as a new "era in -depth cooperation" . However, these steps towards a common program of the ARD with fewer and less cultural differences raise the question of why there should still be nine state radio stations in the future, if the same is increasingly being broadcast in the different transmitters.
The ARD saws on the branch on which it sits. "

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