由2013年每一個德國家庭將要有電視牌照

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由2013年每一個德國家庭將要有電視牌照
Every German household will have to have TV licence from 2013
Friday, 11 June 2010 09:17

Every single household in Germany will have to pay a flat fee of €17.98 per month for a TV licence regardless of whether they have a TV or not under a new law due to come into force on January 1 2013.
每一個單一德國家庭為電視節目服務牌照，不論他們是否有電視，每月將要付出費用€17.98，根據一項新的法律在 2013年1月1日到期生效。
The change will see public broadcasters ARD and ZDF getting an extra billion euros to fund government propaganda following the decision by the prime ministers of the federal states made on June 9 in Berlin.

40 million German households will have to pay the fee from 2013.
4,000萬德國家庭將要從 2013年支付那費用。
There are currently 33.5 million TV sets registered.
目前有3,350萬台電視機註冊了。
The change is expected to boost revenue from TV licences from 7.2 to 8.5 billion, according to expoerts.
變化預期從電視牌照增加財政收入，由72至85億美元，據專家。
The change comes as ARD is making headlines for axing a political talk show host Anne Will, who has interviewed guest Edmund Stoiber warning of collapse of the euro, among others.

Will is to be replaced by popular TV showmaster Gunther Jauch in what appears to be a government driven effort to bring the media into line with the power elite.

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Germany will change the licence fee for public TV and radio broadcasters into a flat-rate universal household payment. This decision was made by the prime ministers of the federal states on June 9 in Berlin.

The payment obligation, which has been subject to the existence of a suitable reception device in a household, will thereby be turned into a fee which has to be paid independent of the existence, type and number of reception devices. The new scheme will come into force on January 1 2013, until then the current system will remain intact.

Through the change, ARD, ZDF and national public radio broadcaster Deutschlandradio will be put in line with cultural and educational institutions such as schools, universities and theatres for which every citizen has to pay a contribution - whether they use them or not.

In May, Paul Kirchhof, a former judge at the German Constitutional Court, presented the results of a study commissioned by public broadcasters ARD and ZDF in which he recommended this scheme as a practicable model which would be in accordance with the German constitution. The exact figure of the new fee still has to be determined, but it is already clear that it won't exceed the current level of €17.98 per month.

With the change, the prime ministers react to the technical convergence of reception devices. Access to the public channels is no longer restricted to classic TV sets and radio receivers, instead programmes are also available through the internet on computers, mobile phones and other modern devices. The prime ministers also want to make licence fee collection less complicated and close loopholes.

As every household will have to pay the fee, the new system also puts an end to the much criticised detective-style investigations by licence fee collection organisation GEZ to uncover non-payers.

© Rapid TV News 2010

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