French President Nicolas Sarkozy has proposed new taxes on internet access and mobile phone use. The new taxes would help fund France's two public television channels, which would be free of advertising.
M. Sarkozy has reassured net users that the tax will be "infinitessimal". So why bother with it then? France's public service television is appalling: so appalling in fact that TF1, the main channel, has the distinction of having shown a programme that garnered no viewers at all*
I suspect the reason that M. Sarko is introducing this tax is that advertisers have also realised that most of France is busy watching dubbed American drama series on channels 6 and 9, and so he needs to do something to replace some lost revenue.
*It was, iirc, about an old Algerian woman talking about her life... If I can find an online source, I'll post it.Labels: France, television |
