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Originally Posted by bevdeforges
It's actually quite common throughout Europe. The government has always controlled the key media for communication - the press, then radio, then television. Commercial radio and television is actually a fairly recent phenomenon over here (well, in the last few decades).
The tv tax is to support the government run channels (which used to be all of them) - even though they now carry advertisements just like the commercial channels do.
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No advertisements here. I wouldn't call it "government controlled" radio and TV though - it's "public service" - that's the point of it, to provide a wider variety of news and entertainment than a commercial channel might.