Restructuring events
European Restructuring Monitor (ERM)
The restructuring events database contains factsheets with data on large-scale restructuring events reported in the principal national media and company websites in each EU Member State. This database was created in 2002.
MDR, a German public-broadcasting organisation, has announced a comprehensive cost-cutting programme, affecting about 240 positions.
The reductions stem from the inability to raise the broadcasting fee, which has created a revenue shortfall for the network. MDR’s leadership has emphasized that the programme cuts are part of a broader effort to preserve the broadcaster’s regional presence and maintain its core services amid fiscal constraints.
MDR plans to stop producing new episodes of “Tatort” and “Polizeiruf” for three years. The cuts will also affect the “ARD-Mittagsmagazin,” which will be produced by NDR instead. In addition, MDR wants to reduce its social media activities by 30% and cancel podcasts with fewer than 6,000 listeners. It also plans to replace its long-running TV program “MDR um 2” with a streaming format which results in 40 out of the 240 layoffs.
MDR has around 3,700 employees.
Eurofound (2026), MDR, Internal restructuring in Germany, factsheet number 300404, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/300404.
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