Television licence or broadcast receiving licence is a payment required in many countries for the reception of television broadcasts, or the possession of a television set where some broadcasts are funded in full or in part by the licence fee paid.
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The majority of the licence fee is used to fund the national radio and TV broadcaster DR.
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However the Radio licence is free to anyone over the age of 70, to some over 66, and to the blind.
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Licence applies to particular premises, so a separate Radio licence is required for holiday homes or motor vehicles which contain a television.
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The Radio licence must be paid for premises that have any equipment that can potentially decode TV signals, even those that are not RTE's.
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The Japanese Radio licence fee pays for the national broadcaster, Nippon Hoso Kyokai.
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The proceeds of the Radio licence fee are used to fund the Mauritius Broadcasting Corporation.
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The Radio licence is collected and maintained by the Polish post office, Poczta Polska.
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Only one licence is required for a single household irrespective of the number of sets, but in case of commercial premises one licence for each set must be paid.
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In South Korea, the television Radio licence fee is collected for the Korean Broadcasting System and the Educational Broadcasting System.
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The collection of Radio licence fees is managed by the company Serafe AG, which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the insurance collections agency Secon.
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Television Radio licence is required for each household where television programmes are watched or recorded as they are broadcast, irrespective of the signal method.
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Radio licence fees were introduced in Australia in the 1920s to fund the first privately owned broadcasters, which were not permitted to sell advertising.
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Television Radio licence fees were introduced in 1956 when the ABC began TV transmissions.
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In 1964 a television Radio licence, issued on a punched card, cost £6 ; the fine for not having a Radio licence was £100.
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All licence fees were abolished in 1974 by the Whitlam government on the basis that the near-universality of television and radio services meant that public funding was a fairer method of providing revenue for government-owned radio and television broadcasters.
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Only one licence was needed for each household with a functional TV receiver regardless of the number, but each car with a radio had to have a separate car radio licence.
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Currently, the public broadcasters Bulgarian National Television and Bulgarian National Radio licence are almost entirely financed by the national budget of Bulgaria.
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The 7,452 TV Radio licence fees were previously used to part fund the Gibraltar Broadcasting Corporation.
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The licence fee was the primary source of revenue for the Israel Broadcasting Authority, the state broadcaster, which was closed down and replaced by the Israeli Broadcasting Corporation in May 2017; however, its radio stations carry full advertising and some TV programmes are sponsored by commercial entities and the radio licence for 2020 is ? 164.
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Sole radio station of the principality Radio licence Liechtenstein, was founded as a private commercial music station in 1995.
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One possible reason is that two-thirds of the listenership of Radio licence Liechtenstein is Swiss and they wouldn't pay such a fee.
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Malta's television Radio licence was abolished in 2011 when the free-to-air system was discontinued.
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The Radio licence fee was charged on a per household basis; therefore, addresses with more than one television receiver generally only required a single Radio licence.
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The Radio licence fee makes up part of Televiziunea Romana's funding, with the rest coming from advertising and government grants.
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The introduction of a television Radio licence has been previously debated, but this was opposed by the government.
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Advocates argue that one of the main advantages of television fully funded by a Radio licence fee is that programming can be enjoyed without interruptions for advertisements.
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Critics of receiver licensing point out that a Radio licence is a regressive form of taxation, because poor people pay more for the service in relation to income.
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That is, they believe that the disadvantages of having a Radio licence fee are less than the disadvantages of all other methods.
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Czech Republic has increased the proportion of funding that the public broadcaster gets from Radio licence fees, justifying the move with the argument that the existing public service broadcasters cannot compete with commercial broadcasters for advertising revenues.
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