MTV, a Finnish commercial television broadcaster owned by Sweden’s Telia, will reduce its headcount by more than 20 and discontinue the production of radio news and teletext services by next spring.
The number of redundancies may yet change if staff members turn down transfers to new duties, the company said in a press release on Thursday.
The measures were agreed on during consultative negotiations launched on 15 August. The broadcaster estimated at the time that it would need to make up to 45 redundancies for financial, operational and corporate structure-related reasons, but it managed to bring down the number by decreasing the use of external labour and converting full-time contracts into part-time ones.
The objective of the negotiations was to accelerate the implementation of its new strategy, which places greater emphasis on digital know-how, streaming…
