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The managing board of RTK said that the public broadcaster’s budget is inadequate, making it impossible to invest in new equipment or even pay its debts.
The competition for a new director of the Radio and Television of Kosovo has been scrapped after BIRN reported irregularities in the process.
Kosovo’s government is determined to appoint a new board of directors at Radio Television Kosovo, but fresh faces alone won’t be enough to fix the troubled public broadcaster.
Financial restructuring and other amendments to the Law on RTK were discussed by MPs and stakeholders in an attempt to make the public broadcaster more sustainable.
Agim Zatriqi’s departure leaves Kosovo’s public broadcaster looking weakened – at a time when the political class seems determined to curtail its independence.