Search for new public media funding scheme gets green light

Poland, like many other European countries, collects funding for public TV and radio through a licence fee, which PM Tusk has called in the past “an un-collectable tax”.

Over half of households, and a tiny proportion of businesses, do not pay the licence fee, resulting in a crisis of funding for public television TVP and Polskie Radio.

“The present system is unfair and outdated,” Minister Zdrojewski told TOK FM radio on Friday morning.

The minister refused to say how the new fee would be collected, however.

"The fee will be lower than the current one,” he said, adding that it could be attached to electricity or other accounts. (pg)

source: PAP