PUBLIC TELEVISION ON A SLIMMING DIET

Zoltán Rudi, president of MTV public television explains it with economizing purposes that for three months from June 12 all interior productions must be suspended, apart from news programmes.

MTV will broadcast the matches of the European soccer championship from Portugal and the olympic games from Athens but apart from those only materials from the archives and external productions will be on the programme of the public television.

All literary, cultural, and art programmes will be on holiday and their staff will be also sent on forced holidays. Zoltán Rudi said the restrictive measures were necessary for economic reasons but people watch less television programmes in summer anyway. MTV joins the public acquisition tender of the Prime Minister’s Office, too, so instead of Peugeots there will be Skoda cars bought on hire purchase without leasing them. This financial construction has been approved by the Hungarian Television Public Endowment as well.

Translated by Péter Szentmihályi Szabó