Television networks deserve their licence fee rebate in the face of tighter operating conditions and competition from the non-commercial ABC, writes media markets watcher Roger Coleman.
Licence fees
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.
