National Radio Council (KRRiT) It has decided to keep subscription prices for 2025 unchanged. The fee for using a radio receiver is PLN 8.70 per month, and for a TV or TV and radio receiver – PLN 27.30 per month. These rates have been in effect since the beginning of 2023 when the last increase occurred.
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As the Wirtualne Media portal reports, approximately 3.7 million people in Poland are exempt from the obligation to pay RTV license fees. This includes people over the age of 75, citizens who suffer from a significant degree of disability, are completely unable to work or have Group 1 disability. In addition, the exemption includes war and military invalids, people who were subjected to repression during the Polish People’s Republic, as well as those receiving a pension not exceeding half of the average salary.
At the end of 2022 Only 34.7 percent of people obligated to pay the RTV license fee actually did so. Among them were 589 thousand. Households and 239 thousand institutional subscribers. This means a decrease compared to the previous year, when just over PLN 900,000 were paid. binding.
If you do not register a radio or TV, you can appeal the fine imposed. If the appeal is found to be ineffective, the National Broadcasting Council may write off the arrears or divide them into instalments. In 2022, Poczta Polska applied to the National Broadcasting Council to cancel the arrears of 3,476 subscribers who owed PLN 5.1 million.
As we read, the National Radio Council also decided to transfer additional funds from radio and television license fees to Radio Dela Molodic and Radio Poznań. Other public media companies still have to wait for that money.
The lack of a subscription price increase is not the best news for public television. Recently, the current authorities informed employees that although a government transfer of PLN 480 million reached the company’s accounts, it was a “drop in the ocean.”
The authors of the letter emphasized that after the veto of the budget bill by President Andrzej Duda The company’s situation is still difficult. “We assure you of that No one in TVP earns hundreds of thousands of zlotys a month anymoreThat none of the directors have additional civil contracts that allow for the shameful plundering of television. There is also no “oversight” of online microforms and other egregious practices, as one might read in a letter to employees.
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