Wednesday, August 6, 2008

Maa TV Reporters lose 'Staff' status

 
      The management of Maa TV seems to have decided to close down its news department. In a sudden move, the district reporters and cameramen who are on the payrolls have been summoned to Hyderabad and were asked to forego their employee status. All of them were asked to sign the papers saying that they are not the employees of the channel and are only freelancers working for it. With this, the emplyer-employee relationship ceases to exist between them and the management is empowered to remove all of them without assigning any reason.
   During the last two years, the number of news bulletins have been halved and almost all the senior staff left the channel. some of the vacancies have been filled up by less qualified and less experienced stuff from mana Telugu including its News Chief. 80 percent of the Reporters, Subeditors, Video editors and Cameramen left the channel during this period. This shows that the management is not interested in continuing the news bulletins.
  The present situation hints that their news channel doesnt come at all, despite the fact that they have a license.

1 Comment:

Anonymous said...

This news is correct..? worng..? once again cross check. i hope it is false news. news dept close chesti eapptilo vundaka povachu. chiru party vendhi kabatti.