Coalition proposes expanding exemptions from public media fees

The television and radio license fee would no longer be paid by households of seniors over 75 years old, or by entrepreneurs and companies with up to 50 employees instead of the current threshold of 24 employees. The extension of exemptions from the fee was proposed in an amendment by a group of coalition MPs led by Deputy Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies Patrik Nacher (ANO). According to the estimate of the authors, Czech Television and Czech Radio would lose hundreds of millions of crowns in revenue.

According to former Minister of Culture Martin Baxa (ODS), this is another blow against independent public service media.