Lapland People: Yle Radio Finland’s Provincial Radio Broadcasts end

Mightily The regional broadcasts of the largest radio channel in Finland will end in their current form, says The people of Lapland.

According to the magazine, the provincial consented broadcasts will end completely as a result of YLE’s savings. Regional broadcasts have been heard on weekdays radio in Finland in the mornings and afternoons.

Radio Finland’s morning, noon and afternoon broadcasts will be hosted from Tampere, according to the people of Lapland. According to the magazine, the broadcasts would be nationwide, but there would also be a provincial program or other content. According to the magazine, the regional news would remain in the software.

Editor-in-Chief of YLE News and Current Disposal Panu Pokkinen denies the information of the Lapland People about the consequences of centralizing provincial broadcasts. According to Pokkinen, Yle informs about the reform of supply when deciding.

Pokkinen comments on the matter to the STT via SMS. He confirms that Tampere is being formed by a newsletter transmission stream of the news of a news radio. However, according to Pokkinen, it is not yet known what this means in practice for radio listeners.

“That is, there are no decisions that would not have been made public. There is also no information on what the new provincial mission will be like, as its design is still just starting, ”Pokkinen tells STT.

Mightily managing director Merja Ylä-Anttila told the STT on Friday that it was not decided to abolish YLE’s programs in the final change negotiations. Instead, according to Ylä-Anttila, the company intends, among other things, to make less online content on the news side.

Earlier on Friday, the Journalists’ Association reported that as a result of the change negotiations, there would be a reduction in one in six employees of YLE’s provincial deliveries. According to Pokkinen, regional activities will be renewed into local news and no delivery is eliminated from any locality.

Yle told On Friday, the company’s employees will decrease by 309 employees as a result of change negotiations. There are 156 redundancies from the reduction.

A total of approximately 1,800 employees in the employment relationship were covered by the conversion negotiations.