Panu Pokkinen, Editor -in -Chief of YLE, corrects the news of the Lapland People – This is the situation of YLE’s regional radio broadcasts

Panu Pokkinen denies Lapland People’s knowledge of the end of the radio broadcasts of the regional edits. However, the redundancies of YLE also apply to regional activities.

The magazine wrote that the program content, traditionally known as Lapland radio, ends.

– It’s not true. The end of the Lapland radio is a news junk. Strong provincial radio remains.

– It is true that we will renew the radio broadcasting of the radio.

Lapland People is a newspaper that is published three times a week and as a visual magazine online six times a week. It publishes online stuff daily. The magazine is the Lappish voice supporter.

Its news about the end of regional shipment stream radios has caused concern all over Finland.

Pokkinen states that the reforms are made without \”provincialism suffering\”. According to him, the plans are to concentrate activities on Tampere, including presenting.

– The areas will focus on news work and presence, and they want to increase their number. We want the local sound to continue.

– Hopefully, the audience will experience the regional program even more than now, Panu Pokkinen continues.

– We have no plans to stop regional news broadcasts. In changes, we invest in investing in local newsjournalism.

The report of the Parliamentary Working Party obliged YLE to safeguard the provincial broadcasting and news reporting.

– We start to fulfill this task. How it happens exactly will be clear later.

The number of regional deliveries will remain

Panu Pokkinen states that no final decisions on content changes have yet been made.

He emphasizes that there is no intention to reduce the number of regional deliveries.

There is a delivery in 27 locations in Finland.

– Heard and hopefully they are even more present where the people in the area are and move.

However, the redundancies also apply to employees of regional delivery.

– The people are decreasing throughout the top. We have such a big savings that they affect all our activities.

According to Panu Pokkinen, the idea and goal of the reforms is to make the whole Finland want to be more belonged to all Finns.

– We make a program that shows up different provinces for all Finns. In addition, we make a more local program and bring the provincial voice to the people of the province and tell things that interest them.

The number of personnel is reduced by 309 people

As a result, YLE’s number of employees is reduced by 309. There are 156 redundancies.

With retirement and other personnel changes, YLE’s staff will also be reduced by 153 people.

There were 1,798 employees in the employment relationship in the conversion negotiations.

Negotiations now have achieved savings of EUR 27 million.

In total, Parliament’s cuts will require savings of approximately EUR 66 million by 2027.

28.1. 7:50 pm Edited: Added information that the people of Lapland are published three times a week and as a visual magazine six times a week.