hello serafe and hello Replay with compulsory advertisement. These arseholes in the advertising industry. And the arsehole politicians who do nothing!!
OK - I thought I would weigh in here as a Kiwi and say that for some stupid reason the NZ Government abolished the 'Broadcasting Fee' about 20 years ago.
Did we loose local content? - Nope Did the Ads per hour on Public TV Increase? - Yup, but not any more than the Average in the rest of the world.
However, this was a paltry NZ$ 165.00 per year ( which I never paid ) because I never owned a TV ( used a VCR and a Computer Monitor )
I believe that the NZ Government scrapped the Fee as it was costing them more to chase the non-payers than the revenue it collected
You want to angry? Try to get the length of a TV Hour back up over 40 minutes .....
I do remember the good old days of TV when a 60 min slot had 55 minutes of actual TV program and not the 39 minutes we seem to have today.
And now they want to abolish replay TV in CH with the ability to skip the ads!! Time to drop the TV over the balcony. Fortunately I only use it for SF1 and 2 and Info,CNN and Film 4 and a few other docu senders. Everything else is just shit!
I wonder how they will define "no equipment suitable for the reception of radio or television programme services is present or is operated in the private household. "
I imagine any household with a mobile phone, a computer, tablet, a car or otherwise will not be able to opt-out. There can't be many of those households!
So every retired person on a pension does not have to pay. Can't be true!
And its not true!! Its for people who get the extra pension payments ( Ergänzungleistung ) when their pension is not enough. Such stupid false statements.