The Swedish License-Fee System : Once More Under Reconsideration

• In the Nordic countries, alternative methods of how to finance public service broadcasting are now being discussed. A number of alternatives have been suggested as alternatives to maintaining the traditional license fee system, the main alternative being to replace it with a tax or with a so called media charge. This study concentrates on the debate in Sweden in comparison to the other Nordic countries. In Sweden a new public service-committee of inquiry was appointed 2011, with the task of considering the psb-financing system.

Subject headings

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Media and Communications (hsv//eng)

Keyword

license fee

media charge

media policy

media tax

Nordic countries

Public Service Broadcasting

radio-TV-financing

Publication and Content Type

ref (subject category)

art (subject category)