The government will scrutinize NRK-license – VG

the Government will scrutinize the license, but does not have a clear answer on how the NRK shall be funded in the future.

During a press conference on Thursday afternoon underscored the culture Linda Hofstad Helleland the necessity of a new model for public finansering of the NRK. The government therefore wants to examine a designated medieavgift.

– We want it to be teknologinøytral. It should not be tied to specific appliances, as it does today, said kulturministeren during a press conference Thursday afternoon.

So outlined that she is a medieavgift can be formulated:

– It should be levied per household or per person. It will either be a husavgift, an earmarked tax, or an allocated amount per person, with the exemption of the income or other criteria. When the models are examined, they will be evaluated against the ordinary budsjettfinansiering, says Helleland.

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It means that the NRK licence fee as we know it today should be scrapped.

the Opposition is not satisfied

the Government’s mediemelding is made to travel at express speed with after that In regjeringsplattformen between the Right and the progress party from Sundvollen in 2013, wrote the parties that should form government, that they would ” put forward a white paper about NRK-license and alternative payment arrangements.”

the Storting, except the progress party, said in February that they wanted to do about NRK-license to a medieskatt.

the party’s mediepolitiske spokesman, Arild Grande says there is nothing new in the proposal from the kulturministeren.

If that comes forward about the financing of NRK votes, it is not something new and just the same as the Parliament said for over half a year ago. If they don’t have any concrete proposal on the table, have they wasted over half a year without doing its job, he says to VG.

the Parliament told in march that the government shall submit a proposal to the new financing of NRK by the end of 2016, adds Grande.

expect more

the Centre party, Marit Arnstad also says to NRK that it is sad that the government has not put forward a specific funding model yet.

the Case is already examined. We had expected that the government actually came with a concrete funding model, which the Parliament could treat, ” says Arnstad, and adds:

For NRK and TV 2, it means that one must continue to live in uncertainty over funding in the future. I think that’s sad, when the parliamentary majority is ready to make a decision.

Support TV 2 with up to 135 million

Knut Olav Åmås and Mediemangfoldsutvalget la in October, the number of possible models for the financing of the public service.

Helleland also put forward the government’s view of how commercial public service, i.e. the CHANNELS 2, to be financed.

– the State will support a commercial allmennkringkaster with up to 15 million euros, approximately 135 million after today’s course, she said.

Related to this support is a number of requirements which the government will have met, among others, the head office outside Oslo, a minimum of 50 per cent English content, and the use of both variants.

– We need a so allmennkringkaster. It will ensure a real competitor to NRK. This is important for the government, says Helleland.

the Left-leader Trine Skei Grande roses the government.

Good that the Government skroter the unrighteous license. We should have a system where we can contribute more according to their ability, and regardless of the platform we use, writes the Left-leader Trine Skei Grande on twitter.