Overview
- The VOX series is preparing its twelfth season under explicit cost-saving directives from the broadcaster.
- Mälzer said on the Hazel Thomas Hörerlebnis podcast that he would stop the show if reductions touch the core product.
- He argued that savings drives rarely succeed and cautioned against creative losses, recalling magazine-industry cuts that sidelined creators.
- RTL Deutschland plans to cut around 600 jobs, including about 230 in RTL News, while consolidating programs such as Gala, Prominent, and several morning shows with ntv.
- No decision to end Kitchen Impossible has been announced, though Mälzer cited Joko Winterscheidt and Klaas Heufer-Umlauf as examples of ending a costly format preemptively.