The Prime Minister is not the Director of the public broadcasting really satisfied. Although the Meeting on Thursday in Berlin, is described as “constructive”, at the same time, the state Chancellery of Rhineland-Palatinate, in a press release, the broadcasting Commission of the Länder ressortiert, found that the system of public broadcasting in the social discussion on the need for a wide acceptance. This does not apply for its programme offerings, but also in Particular for the contribution. The Minister of the interior and Prime Minister renewed their expectation that the institutions to implement reforms rapidly, and for more savings. With a view to the current need for registration, they stressed that regardless of whether you agreed to a restructuring of the financing or in the previous KEF-procedure stay, a reasonable and moderate contribution adjustment the cornerstone for all further Considerations. What is “moderate” and “moderate”, is not informed. In any case, an increase in the contribution rate referred to in view, the present contribution period, with a monthly € 17.50 per household, ends in 2021. But before that, the station must deliver in terms of savings. In Public, the image must be clear: The Prime Minister moans and the Director sigh – on the contribution payer groans under the new contribution amount.
element in the democratic society
What was the Meeting important: The representatives of politics and broadcasting have emphasized, according to the press release, the special importance of public broadcasting in the dual media landscape as an important element in democratic society. “Given the rapid pace of digital developments, it is important that the institutions in their structure and in their Offers of convergent set-up,” said the Chairman of the broadcasting Commission of the Länder, the Rhineland-Palatinate Minister President Malu Dreyer (SPD), the use of media change constantly, this requires adjustment. Given the market penetration of the US-American search engines and platforms to a common public platform strategy, is urgently needed. ARD and ZDF, and Germany as a wall against the Yanks – nice.
