Television Licensing In Sweden
Sweden introduced its first television licence fee in 1956 costing 25 SEK annually, the same year television was introduced to Sweden. Until 1988, the licence fee was administered by a division of the Swedish state-owned telecommunications company Televerket, when that function was taken over by Radiotjänst i Kiruna AB which was jointly owned by the three public broadcasters Sveriges Television, Sveriges Radio and Sveriges Utbildningsradio. The fee paid for five TV channels, 45 radio channels as well as TV and radio on the Internet. In Sweden, the term "television licence" ( sv, TV-licens) was replaced by the term "television fee" ( sv, TV-avgift) in 1967, although Swedish people sometimes still refer to it by the former term. Upon the introduction of colour television in Sweden in 1970, an extra surcharge of 100 SEK per annum was levied on households with at least one colour television set. The colour television surcharge was abolished in 1990 and the annual television fee wa ...
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Television Licence
A 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. The fee is sometimes also required to own a radio or receive radio broadcasts. A TV licence is therefore effectively a hypothecated tax for the purpose of funding public broadcasting, thus allowing public broadcasters to transmit television programmes without, or with only supplemental funding from radio and television advertisements. However, in some cases, the balance between public funding and advertisements is the opposite – the Polish broadcaster TVP receives more funds from advertisements than from its TV tax. History The early days of broadcasting presented broadcasters with the problem of how to raise funding for their services. Some countries adopted the advertising model, but many others adopted a compulsory public su ...
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