Independent Irish broadcaster TV3’s decision to close its Northern Ireland office has caused considerable surprise.
A reporter and a cameraman at the bureau in Belfast are among the staff of 13 of a total workforce of 160 which the broadcaster plans to sack.
It blames the need to cut operating budgets on the impact on the market of RTE’s recent licence-fee increase, saying that the “unrestricted use of such funds”, about which it has made official complaints, has given rise to “market distortions that have negatively affected potential advertising revenues.”
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Irish secretary of the NUJ, Seamus Dooley,ø said the reason given by the station for its action was “spurious”.
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