Czech Republic

Public media across Eastern Europe faced contrasting fortunes. With RSF, PMA examines funding, political pressure and independence.

PMA joins statement against Czech government plans to abolish the public media licence fee and replace it with direct state budget funding.

This edition: harmful rhetoric against RNZ, approval of a bill to abolish Czech licence fee, and a French journalist's expulsion from Israel.

Bills put forward by both the Czech and the Hungarian government look to fundamentally reform the respective public broadcasters.

The Czech and Slovenian governments are both attempting to fundamentally alter the funding models of the national public broadcasters.

Israel’s Kan and Czech media confront funding threats, ABC and SBS reject the IHRA antisemitism definition, RNZ’s CEO prepares to step down.

PMA joins the MFRR in a call to the EC to assess a new PSM funding bill in Czech Republic, as concerns rise over compatibility with EMFA. 

PMA opposes the government's proposal to replace the existing licence fee with direct state budget funding.

VOA journalists sue the White House again, ORF launches transparency board, and funding uncertainty for public media in Poland and Czechia.

This edition: Hungary's election and public media reform, and a withdrawn but alarming Czech licence fee amendment.