Like most institutions in the Wallonia-Brussels Federation, RTBF is put to diet. His endowment is reduced. To adapt to this new budgetary reality, the board of directors of the public service company adopted last April a savings plan to answer thus to the expectations of the government of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation which eliminated the indexing of the endowment and frozen the increase of 2% provided for within the framework of the Community Policy Declaration (DPC).
In 2028 alone, the budgetary effort will represent 55.2 million. And the effort to be deployed between 2025 and 2028 rises to more than 132 million, a decrease of 12% compared to the initial financial trajectory. Without dry dismissal.
Amendment
To implement this savings plan, it was necessary to modify, via an amendment, the management contract 2023-2027, signed under the old majority (where the MR already sat). The government of the Federation approved this endorsement this Friday.
“RTBF is not intended to become the center of gravity of the Belgian French -speaking audiovisual. This amendment constitutes a first step towards a refocusing of our public media on its fundamental missions”, underlines the Minister of the Media, Jacqueline Galant (MR).
The Minister thus recalls that this amendment will allow private media to acquire rights of retransmission of sporting events, that the morning morning morning of the RTBF will be able to find advertisements, while formalizing the non-indexation and the suppression of the additional 2% for the classic endowment, as well as the non-indexation of the annual coverage of RTBF to TV5.
“It was a huge job for all the teams that requires making choices in the allocation of means, while ensuring that they are resonated with the desires and needs of all the audiences of the FWB”, explains Jean-Paul Philippot, general administrator of the RTBF.
For the president of the CA, Joëlle Milquet this amendment “does not question the missions, principles and fundamental values ​​of the RTBF provided for in the current management contract of RTBF, which I am delighted “.
