2023-12-19 17:21:12
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Tom Buhrow will quit as WDR director early at the end of 2024
Status: 19.12.2023 | Reading time: 2 minutes
Tom Buhrow will stop as WDR director at the end of 2024
Source: dpa/Henning Kaiser
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Director Tom Buhrow was actually supposed to be in charge of WDR until the end of 2025. Now the former “Tagesthemen” presenter has announced that he will vacate his post at the end of 2024, a year earlier. The reason given is that he wants to “enable a smooth transition”.
WDR director Tom Buhrow is not seeking a third term in office and is quitting early. The 65-year-old will hand over the management at the end of 2024, the public broadcaster announced on Tuesday in Cologne. Buhrow has been director of the largest ARD station, Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR), since summer 2013. Before that, he was already known to millions as the ARD “Tagesthemen” presenter.
According to WDR, his second term as station director began in July 2019 and actually lasts until the end of June 2025. Buhrow is ending half a year earlier. In the WDR announcement The move said it wanted to enable a smooth transition until the start of the new contribution period from 2025. The current contribution period, in which a monthly broadcasting contribution of 18.36 euros is due for households, lasts until the end of 2024.
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This means that a new WDR station manager will be elected next year. The election will also be followed with great attention because WDR holds an important position of power within the ARD structure simply due to its size.
An artistic director in public broadcasting runs the station and is responsible for programming and operations. At WDR, the director is elected for six years. The Broadcasting Council is responsible for the staffing. It is a control committee in WDR and is made up of representatives from business, society, politics and other groups.
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