TV fees – France and Japan

Upload: 6 April 2019, Last update: 23 April 2019

Recently, France media reported that Gérald Darmanin, the Minister of Public Action and Accounts, suggested the possibility of abolishing the current TV fee system.

The Minister mentioned it on BFMTV on 29 March 2019[1].

Although the system is not the completely same, this type of topic related to TV fees has been controversial in Japan. People are increasingly leaving TV by diversified ways of getting information in daily life.

NHK is the TV station demands to pay the fees in Japan. In France, the revenue paid by more than 27 million households whose total is 3.8 billion euros is divided to 7 companies including France Télévisions and Radio France[2].

As time passes, the conventional mediums are changing to others. It needs the conventional media to change the way of raising funds. Japan’s conventional way has to be changed, or more and more people would have complaints.

[1] https://www.francetvinfo.fr/politique/gerald-darmanin/audiovisuel-public-la-fin-de-la-redevance-est-elle-faisable_3256507.html Accessed 5 April 2019

[2] http://www.lefigaro.fr/economie/le-scan-eco/dessous-chiffres/redevance-tv-ce-que-paient-nos-voisins-europeens-20190329 Accessed 5 April 2019