2nd March 2023
Household levy suggested for ORF
ORF has been ordered to identify where it could reduce expenses, as the government looks set to change its funding to a household levy.
30th January 2023
Slovakia: Licence fee faces possible abolition
Slovak public broadcaster RTVS’s licence fee structure faces axing, with plans to suspend the funding model from July 2023 up in the air.
26th January 2023
Ireland: RTÉ promised funding reform
The government has promised to reform RTÉ’s "broken" funding model by September 2024 but has previously rejected funding through taxation.
13th January 2023
SABC licence fee to be scrapped
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.
12th January 2023
Going all digital? BBC, France Télévisions consider online-only futures
The BBC is eyeing an online-only future that will see the end of its traditional radio and television broadcasts over the next decade.
21st October 2022
Calls to “expedite” SABC board appointments following delays
The new board of South Africa’s public broadcaster has still not been appointed, while financial woes persist.
28th July 2022
VAT funding for French public media approved
The National Assembly approved the first reading of the bill which would end the licence fee and instead fund it through VAT.
19th July 2022
BBC funding: household levy put forward
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.
14th July 2022
Ireland to maintain and reform licence fee system
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.
6th May 2022
New study reveals how audiences undervalue the BBC
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.