Culture Minister: PLN 1.5 bln for public media
PR dla Zagranicy
Roberto Galea
24.11.2015 14:10
New Polish Culture Minister Piotr Gliński has said that the country’s public media could get an injection of funds from a new subscription payment.
The TVP headquarters in Warsaw. Photo: Wikimedia Commons
Half of the PLN 1.5 billion (EUR 350 million) gathered by the subscriptions for public media would end up with local media outlets.
According to Minister Gliński, the draft law reforming the public media is almost complete.
The Minister said on Monday that the public media in Poland is to be transformed into “national cultural institutions”, and operate on similar principles as the National Opera and the Warsaw Philharmonic. They would function as “institutions, which are non-profit; not like a commercial entity”.
He added that the bill is “in its final phase, and is almost ready”.
Gliński said that the new subscription model which will replace the current payment system will raise more money for the public media.
“We would get up to raise PLN 1.5 billion for public media: television, radio, also news agencies," he explained. (rg/rk)