Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – SSR, Swiss public broadcasting company, will lose its director general, Armin Walpen, and its deputy director general, Daniel Eckmann, at the start of 2011. Walpen has confirmed that he will retire 31 December 2010 and Eckmann earlier announced that he will leave at the end of January 2011, a month later. SSR will begin the search for its new senior management team at the end of August 2009.
Lausanne, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – SSR’s chairman Armin Walpen announced Thursday morning that the company will be freezing jobs in 2009 at the 2008 level and taking other cost-cutting and containment measures. SSR is the parent of Swiss French-speaking radio and television, RSR and TSR, as well as World Radio Switzerland, WRS and swissinfo, a multi-language online Swiss news site.
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