“A Further 60 have to go in the TV2 – VG

Nedskjæringene in the crisis-hit media house continues.

From before has 63 people been granted a severance package in the ongoing spareprosessen. The deadline to apply passed out 16. september.

The employees called in to allmøte Thursday.

” get lit by several sources in the TV 2 system that a further 60 employees have to go. Some sources, however, far more pessimistic and mention the far higher number.

Need to save 350 million

the club manager in the TV2 Henrikke Helland don’t want to comment on the information face of the VG.

I can’t comment on anything before the exact number is known, she says.

Nor Jan-Petter Dahl, head of communication at TV 2, will comment on the matter before the assembly in the morning.

Last week, the enlightened organization – and director of communications, Sarah C. J. Willand to Medier24 that there will be a further need to reduce the number of employees, but that the specific number will be made known on Thursday’s strategiframleggelse.

Already in January came the first sign that TV 2 should tighten into when they went out and stated that they will save 350 million until 2020. Even if everything can’t be taken with downsizing, it is speculated that between 100 and 200 employees must go from the channel, wrote Medier24.

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the Board of directors will take the position of kuttplanene Thursday morning. The plans presented to the employees in a allmøte the clock, 11: 30 am, with subsequent avdelingsvise meetings.

A variety of profiles have gone

Among those employees who have expressed concern around the channel cuts are the profile sportskommentatoren Davy Wathne.

I think it will be bloody and terrible tough – much uglier and painful than we have gone around and thought, he said to VG in the end of august.

Among TV-the profiles that have taken the severance package is Nils Gunnar Lie, Jan Øyvind Helgesen, Signe Thinning, Mah-Rukh Ali and Jan Ove Ekeberg.

In the sportsavdelingen disappear Jahn Ivar “Mini” Jacobsen, Thomas Aune, Freddy Dos Santos, Ole Martin Årst and Aleksander Schau, but not all of these have been permanent employees in the channel.

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Also, viewing has plummeted this fall. Figures from the mediebyrået RED shows that TV2 has had a decrease from 46 minutes seertid in september 2015 for 38 minutes so far in september, writes the Newspaper.

Also the bigger the programs have struggled with seertiden this fall. Last Friday noted the flagship “Senkveld” the season’s preliminary bunnotering with just 337.000 viewers.

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