It's a political topic that is going to generate interest. The idea is....to merge the two public TV networks (ARD and ZDF) into one single operation.
Politically.....CDU folks are mostly against it (48-percent). Same for the SPD voters (58-percent). But it appears that the general public likes the idea.
Who will be strongly against it? I think the news people for ARD and ZDF will be strongly against it because they know that a fair sum of folks will be let go.
The truth is that between the two public networks, there's at least twelve different news programs per day. There's probably at least 150 journalists between the networks who live and work outside of Germany.....providing signature-newscasts everyday to their host network.
From a budget standpoint....it makes sense to merge them. The odds of this? Probably less than a 10-percent chance.
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