The Government assigned Vietnam Television to take over the functions and tasks and restructure 5 television channels and television stations.
According to the Plan to reorganize and streamline the Government's apparatus, which has just been signed and issued by Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Hoa Binh, Deputy Head of the Steering Committee on summarizing the implementation of Resolution No. 18-NQ/TW of the Government, regarding press agencies under the Government, the Plan clearly states: Assign Vietnam Television to develop a Project to only receive the functions and tasks of People's Television, National Assembly Television, News Agency Television, VOV Television, VTC Television; at the same time, restructure and drastically reduce the existing internal organization of Vietnam Television.
Vietnam News Agency and Voice of Vietnam ended the operations of News Agency Television, VOV Television, VTC Television and restructured and drastically reduced the internal organization.
Previously, Minister of Home Affairs Pham Thi Thanh Tra said that the activities of People's Television, National Assembly Television, News Agency Television, VOV Television, and VTC Television will end, transfer related functions and tasks to Vietnam Television and build a project to restructure Vietnam Television, ensuring good performance of the tasks of a national television station, with appropriate specialized channels.
Vietnam News Agency and Voice of Vietnam are streamlining and drastically reducing the number of internal organizational units and staff; focusing on building Vietnam News Agency as a national news agency and Voice of Vietnam as a national radio station, focusing on print, electronic and spoken newspapers (VOV) to carry out political tasks, with the State budget ensuring regular expenditure for activities.