The free-to-air television networks have repeatedly changed their justification for the licence fee handout. Now the latest excuse has been demolished by Foxtel.
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Free TV handouts: we don’t know the half of it
We’ve been seriously underestimating just how much money the free-to-air TV networks will be getting from taxpayers under the Government’s outrageous licence fee rebates, reveal Glenn Dyer and Bernard Keane.
A quarter-billion dollar rort and the media plays dead. Wonder why?
The Government’s weekend handout to the free-to-air television networks — $100-odd million this year and $150m next -– has sunk with barely a trace in the media.
