Job losses expected at MBC, TVM ahead of merger
A senior government official has said jobs were at risk at the state national broadcaster MBC and TVM as the radio and television stations are expected to merge in January.
The merger would immediately impact on jobs at the state media houses, Nyasa Times learnt.
Offcials from Malawi Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) and Television Malawi were non-commital on the development and could not shed light on the tie-up.
The government formed a task force last year to work out a merger of the national radio and the television station.
According to the recomendations, the new organisation born out of the merger will adopt the name MBC and will be re-registered as a public broadcaster with Malawi Communications Regulatory Authority.
“We expect employment losses at the start of the new year as the merger takes place,” said a senior official at Ministry of Information.
The official said maintained that there will be a “number of job losses”, although he declined to give further details and opted to have his name withheld.
MBC staffers also told Nyasa Times that they have got wind of the news of redundancies to his the radio.
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