Czechia

On Our Radar this week: the Ugandan military forces Nation Media Group off-air, and how politics is shaping German public media funding.

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.

This edition: Hungary's election and public media reform, and a withdrawn but alarming Czech licence fee amendment.

The Czechia government recently proposed providing concessions for some citizens, which would see a major reduction in public media funding. 

Is the licence fee on the brink of extinction? With direct government funding in vogue, should we be concerned?

PMA has coordinated an open letter calling on the new government of the Czech Republic to uphold funding and independence of public media.