Overview
- Pig submitted nominations this week for all 13 director posts, proposing Angelika Simma‑Wallinger for Audience and Platforms, Harald Kräuter to continue with Technology and Innovation, Michael Krön for Program and Brands, and Silvia Lieb for Finance and Administration.
- The slate meets Pig’s pledged 50 percent women quota and replaces most of the central directorate with mostly new faces while retaining only one incumbent in a central role.
- ORF confirmed that ORF III co‑manager Peter Schöber has been dismissed and put on leave following a compliance investigation that found leadership behavior inconsistent with ORF duties.
- A Vienna appeals court ruled the magazine Falter may publish chat excerpts linked to former director Roland Weißmann, who lost that legal bid and plans further appeals while his labor case proceeds in September.
- Press reports say the Vienna public prosecutor has opened preliminary inquiries into Stiftungsrat chair Heinz Lederer over alleged coercive phone calls about staffing and contracts, raising political and judicial scrutiny that could affect the Stiftungsrat’s August 11 decision.