{"id":277938,"date":"2019-06-02T23:08:35","date_gmt":"2019-06-03T03:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMicmh0dHBzOi8vYm9ya2VuYS5jb20vMjAxOS8wNi8wMi9lc2F0LWJvYXJkLXRhbGtzLWFib3V0LXJlc3RydWN0dXJpbmctYXMtc29tZS1lbXBsb3llZXMtc2VlLWEtcGxvdC10by1jbG9zZS1pdC1kb3duL9IBAA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-25T11:19:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T15:19:21","slug":"esats-board-talked-restructuring-while-some-staff-feared-a-shutdown-plot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/277938","title":{"rendered":"ESAT\u2019s board talked restructuring while some staff feared a shutdown plot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In June 2019 Borkena reported that the board of Ethiopian Satellite Television and Radio was discussing restructuring while some employees and supporters saw a plot to close the opposition-leaning diaspora outlet.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-597608\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/addis-newspapers.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"ESAT\u2019s board talked restructuring while some staff feared a shutdown plot\" \/>\n<p>ESAT had been a major exile media voice, so an internal fight quickly became a public controversy among audiences who treated the station as political infrastructure, not just a workplace.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as media politics archive, the Borkena report dates the 2019 ESAT restructuring dispute.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/borkena.com\/2019\/06\/02\/esat-board-talks-about-restructuring-as-some-employees-see-a-plot-to-close-it-down\/\">Borkena<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESAT board talks about restructuring as some employees see a plot to close it down&nbsp;&nbsp;borkena.comESAT founds itself in internal dispute, the matter has angered many Ethiopians. The Board talks aobut restructure while a group of employees see pl&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":597608,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/addis-newspapers.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1aiS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277938"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755011,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277938\/revisions\/755011"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/597608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}