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Norway abolishes the NRK licence fee

For many years the licence fee in Norway has been linked to ownership
of a television. This will all change from 2020.

Norway abolishes the licence fee and will finance the public
broadcaster NRK via the State Budget. In the governmental proposal NRK
will receive 5,7 billion kroner in 2020, around 570 million euros, for
producing radio, television and online material.

The Minister of Culture, Trine Skei Grande says: - It is important to
make sure the financing of an independent NRK will work in the future.
This model will be more socially correct than the licence fee.

The licence fee has been unpopular, because every household has to pay
the same amount no matter what income they have. Financing over the
State Budget means that everyone will pay for NRK relative to income
and how much taxes they pay.

In recent years fewer people in Norway has bought and owned a
television, because many Norwegians, especially young people, no
longer watch linear TV and instead uses a laptop or a mobile to stream
content online. Hence fewer people has paid for NRK.

http://www.radionytt.no/eng1909.php