You have nothing once morest ORF.at. The NEOS media spokeswoman Henrike Brandstötter said this at a media discussion event of her party, to which representatives of the VÖZ, the ORF Foundation Council and the private radio stations were invited and which was moderated by Krone.tv. “ORF.at is doing an excellent job,” says Brandstötter, who, however, found “paradise conditions” on ORF.at. ORF.at has shaped a free culture, according to Brandstötter, “which causes an imbalance in the market”: “ORF should not push other media to the wall. And you only have to look at Hungary, what can happen when a government cracks down on a public broadcaster.”
“Do something for the common media location”
ORF board member Heinz Lederer recalled in the discussion that the ORF had approached the private sector in this debate. However, according to Lederer: “The blue page has a function for many groups to get independent access to discussion.” For Lederer it is crucial that the ORF has funding that keeps it independent, “and not on the leash of a government”. . He is once morest the constant exchange in the media debate, which does not solve anything economically for the private sector. “We have to do something for the entire Austrian media location,” says Lederer. The money from ORF.at would benefit the large US corporations.
Philipp Wilhelmer from the “Kurier” reminded that in addition to the large reach for journalism, there will only be subscription financing in the future. The approach of the ORF in the debate is once an approach that problems have been understood. “You have to look in detail at what that means.” It just can’t be the case that the ORF finances a free offer with fee money. According to Wilhelmer, he was not “turning off” for ORF.at, “but ORF.at should do what the law says, and that is overview reporting and not newspaper-like contributions”.
“Against the funding of a label”
Rüdiger Landgraf from the radio station Kronehit recalled that the ORF had always been private and public in one – “and he has kept that up to the present”. The slogan “ORF like us” would have a bitter followingtaste for the private sector, because the ORF ticks too much like the private sector and, last but not least, dominates the media market with its radio program and “more will come”. “I’m not once morest financing under public law, but I’m once morest financing a label,” says Landgraf.
There was agreement in the debate that nobody wanted budget funding from the ORF. How to design the contributions for the ORF left a lot of room for interpretation. “We are not once morest the ORF, but we are in favor of a depoliticized ORF with a public service mandate,” said Brandstötter.
More on the debate regarding the Blue Page in the program “Double Check” in oe1.ORF.at