Romanian Parliament voted on October 25 to eliminate the subscription fee and introduce direct funding of the public radio and TV from the state budget. This is a radical change from the direct public funding model that the public television TVR and the public radio SRR had until now. Despite its major impact, the […]
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Romania to Eliminate Public Broadcast Fee
The saga of the public services in Romania was extended with a new troubled chapter on October 17, when the Senate (the upper chamber of the bi-cameral Parliament) voted to eliminate the subscription fee and introduce direct funding of the public radio and TV from the state budget. The proposal, initiated by the Social-Democrats, […]