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The Seoul Metropolitan Authorities’s monetary help for TBS, a media basis below the Seoul Metropolitan Authorities, will cease tomorrow.
TBS workers are holding out, saying they are going to cease broadcasting even when it means returning their wages, however there’s not a lot time left.
Reporter Lee Ji-eun studies.
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On the finish of 2022, TBS present affairs program host Kim Eo-jun left the printed.
[김어준/당시 ′뉴스공장′ 진행자 (2022년 12월)]
″ No. 1 in viewers for 20 consecutive quarters. I deliberate to do it for the following 20 years, and I’ll do it till the top of this 12 months. There are circumstances. However we’ll speak about it later…”
The ruling get together, the Individuals’s Energy Occasion, put public stress on him to resign, citing bias as a problem, and when the choice was made to chop off the Seoul Metropolitan Authorities’s help for TBS, he resigned. one month after the choice.
[최호정/국민의힘 서울시의원 (2022년 7월)]
“There have been many feedback similar to ‘Is it proper to have a broadcast station that gives site visitors data utilizing treasured tax cash?’
After the host left, this system was subsequently canceled, however the interval was solely postponed and the choice to cease help didn’t change.
Finally, in line with the ordinance permitted by the Seoul Metropolis Council in 2022, monetary help will finish after tomorrow.
″ Viewing rights assured by customizing TBS! ″
[이희영/민변 미디어언론위원장]
“They’re driving TBS into chapter 11 below the auspices of a program that’s offensive to the federal government. It’s a terror that destroys the members of TBS and their proper to life and destroys the liberty of the press.”
Whereas subsidies won’t cease broadcasting instantly, it isn’t clear how lengthy we will final.
That is due to this 12 months’s donation of 9.2 billion gained, there are solely about 2 billion left.
TBS can not run commercials, so stopping help is a loss of life sentence.
Time is working out to discover a new proprietor.
Seoul Mayor Oh Se-hoon, who intervened late, requested for a further delay, however the metropolis council refused to even submit it.
The variety of workers, which was round 350, decreased to 250.
The remaining staff are decided to forestall broadcast disruption even when it means everlasting pains such because the return of greater than 50% of their wages and unpaid depart.
[이정환/TBS 노조위원장]
“For 20 months of struggling, we’ve struggled with the hope that TBS will proceed as a public broadcaster in Seoul and that our livelihood will proceed.”
The Seoul Metropolitan Authorities mentioned, “We are going to assist as a lot as doable to allow unbiased governance,” however added, “That is an unprecedented scenario, so it’s tough to provide you with clear measures,” making it inconceivable to remove the flexibility to close down TBS.
That is Lee Ji-eun from MBC Information.
Video Broadcast: Heo Received-cheol / Video Enhancing: Lee Sang-min
2024-05-30 11:24:44
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