licence fee

Slovak public broadcaster RTVS’s licence fee structure faces axing, with plans to suspend the funding model from July 2023 up in the air.

The government has promised to reform RTÉ’s "broken" funding model by September 2024 but has previously rejected funding through taxation.

The South African government is moving ahead with plans to scrap the TV licence fee which funds SABC and replace it with a household levy.

The BBC is eyeing an online-only future that will see the end of its traditional radio and television broadcasts over the next decade.

The new board of South Africa’s public broadcaster has still not been appointed, while financial woes persist.

The National Assembly approved the first reading of the bill which would end the licence fee and instead fund it through VAT.

The UK’s House of Lords has suggested replacing the licence fee with a household levy which would not be dependent on owning a television.

Ireland’s long-awaited Future of Media Commission report sets out recommendations to sustain and transform the future of media sector, and how public broadcaster RTÉ should be funded.

A new report provides evidence of how British audiences underestimate the value they get from the UK’s largest public service media organisation and the licence fee.

RTÉ's Director-General says the current licence fee funding model is “utterly broken” and needs to be changed urgently.