Czech Television head ringing alarm bells over station’s future

The head of the national public broadcaster Czech Television Petr Dvořák is ringing alarm bells over the station’s future and the quality of broadcasting. In an interview for the financial daily Hospodářské noviny, Dvořák said politicians must either agree to raise license fees or allow more advertising if the quality of programming is to be maintained. He said that even an in-depth audit into the station’s finances had not found a way to save hundreds of millions of crowns a year. Czech Television has had to cut spending by almost a billion crowns, it is laying off employees and will be forced to close down the CT3 channel which was set up specially for senior viewers.