[opendtv] Re: Freeview NZ in nearly 22% of homes
- From: Craig Birkmaier <craig@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 07:23:21 -0500
At 5:51 PM -0500 2/11/10, Albert Manfredi wrote:
More "mysterious" acceptance of FOTA TV, and
even more "mysterious" availability of FOTA DBS.
My guess is that New Zealand also must have a TV
tax? And that must be the crucial ingredient??
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_licence#New_Zealand
New Zealand
Licence fees were first used in New Zealand to
fund the radio services of what was to become the
New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation. Television
was introduced in 1960, and with it the
television licence fee. The licence fee was
capped at NZ$100 a year (around ¤49) in the
1970s, and the country's two television channels,
while still publicly owned, became increasingly
reliant on advertising. Later known as the public
broadcasting fee, the licence fee was finally
abolished in New Zealand in 1999, partly because
the administration costs to collect the tax
relative to the level of revenue was unviable,
and also because the TV channels had become
commercial revenue generators for the government
with hardly any public service obligations left.
The crucial ingredient is that the TV industry in
New Zealand is small and self supporting, and
much of the content on their Freeview platform
comes from international conglomerates, as is the
case in the U.K.
In other words, the folks in New Zealand did not
have the collusion between the big media
conglomerates and the politicians, which has
allowed the U.S. market to evolve into the
current dual revenue stream model.
Regards
Craig
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