- keeping all the correspondents of SRF
- keeping all the news and documentation programs as well as anything that can, with some imagination and goodwill, be described as "informational"
- and getting rid of all the rest
won't save money.
They could rent out the studios to whoever needs them in the time they don't occupy them for news.
Same in Germany. So much crap on TV.
TV is not healthcare and soap-operas and mindless talkshows are not comparable to something like a theater or an opera (that receives subsidies, too).
Revenge is a dish best served cold.
I always thought that paying for the Billag just because I have a screen in the house (duh!) is borderline criminal.
Whether the household income is 60k or 600k. This makes it regressive, which is the opposite of normal tax rates.
Not a peep or word from left wingers about this regression who generally are happy to raise tax. Why?
Is it because left wingers dominate in the media and entertainment industries and their gravy train is more important.
Saying that, it is relatively cheap here compared to incomes and the Billag are not as bad as the UK TV licence collectors in terms of tactics or abuse of powers.
I pay for the radios aspect only btw
Actually, I believe it's not even necessary to own a smartphone.
It's enough that you could own one.
Or a PC.
https://www.bakom.admin.ch/bakom/en/...on-system.html https://www.serafe.ch/en/ One franc a day: the cost of the radio-television fee from 2019
Will this shady charcater still be prowling his beat every night until 31st December, ringing doorbells, punching up pentioners, stealing babies from their cradles, avoiding garlic and crucifixes and trying to sign up people's cats?
Or seeing there's nothing in it any more for Billag, will they be winding down operations early and spending the remaining cash on whores and champaigne?
If everybody stops paying now, will they even care? Won't the costs of prosecution outweigh the potential damage?
Four the sauce, here the original pressrelease:
...all the rest is fake news
But I didn't shoot no Billag, oh no! Oh!
I shot the Serafe,
But I swear it was in self defence.
Talking of which, back in 2005-6 when my income fell off a cliff I looked at resigning from Billag. I had an expensive telly and a decent VHS collection, with plenty more available cheap on flea markets as folks moved to DVD, plus a DVD player.
Nope, the only way to resign from Billag and keep a telly was to get my cable sealed...
So in order to keep an internet connection I needed to go back to a landline. I already had the necessary ADSL kit, but the Swisscom line rental for that was something like CHF 43 a month, and I'd have to pay an ISP on top of that.
Cancelling Billag was going to be more expensive, and Swisscom was going to increase their cut of my outlay.
If I had known Swisscom were the owners of Billag I would have been absolutely furious. That of course was why they were keeping it quiet.
I had an expensive telly, expensive VHS system and expensive DVD player.
Correction:
I already had the necessary ISDN and ISDN/ADSL kit , but the Swisscom line rental for ISDN was something like CHF 43 a month, and I'd have to pay an ISP on top of that.
Dropping from ISDN to analogue would have meant that CHF 650 ISDN/ADSL router was a bit, er, redundant. Plus of course ADSL speeds weren't keeping up with cable speeds at the time.
They seem to have re-worded it yet again. So not just firing off the same old one in the hope somebody will bite. The last letter from them was a shade freindlier and softer, but now they seem to have gone back to their old style of ugly threats and creepiness.
I'm wondering what's in it for them still trying to sign up subscribers for maybe another 8 months.
Unless maybe the sherif is paying them per address.