Cable TV operators to boost media fee collection

Polish government plans to introduce a bill which will force pay tv operators in Poland to collect TV and radio registration from their clients. Such move is aimed to boost media fee collection which is used to finance public tv and radio broadcasters. The companies will be also obligated to provide such data to postal operator Poczta Polska, which is responsible for collecting the media fees. The obligation will be imposed as a public task, which means, the companies will be remunerated by the government media council KRRiTV. The current media fee is set at PLN 22.7 per month, however its collection rate is very low. Out of some 3.3 million households obligated to pay the fee, only one million did so, according to Poczta Polska statistics.