Miłosz Manasterski: The price of truth, or widow a penny on the authoritative receipt

In little than 9 hours, viewers of tv Republic contributed 2 million zlotys. Over twenty-nine 1000 contributions, on average, of little than seventy zlotys — it is not investment capital, it is simply a contribution thrown on the table by people who believed that this antenna was to remain. However, it is worth asking what they bought with it. due to the fact that that's not going to make 1 minute of the program.

Two widow's money

Saint Mark describes a scene that the Church has been reading for 2 1000 years. Jesus sits across from the temple treasury and watches the crowd throw in money. The rich give many, the mediocre widow throws in 2 coins, or 1 penny. And it was she who, according to the teacher's comment, "put everything she had in her possession."

The Sunday rally, launched on "High Tension", was this scene repeated twenty-nine 1000 times. Miłosz Kłek told the audience directly: “We have small time as never, and the amount to collect is huge.” Tomasz Sakiewicz summarized the result, which in another words would be a simple courtesy: "The Republic has the top viewers in the world". This time it was a factual report. The gathering broke out of the studio, with a picnic outside the station with journalists and musicians, and the metre grew on the air all day.

I compose it as a constant commentator of this antenna, so I don't pretend to be an impartial observer. But even an outsider would gotta admit that the concession fees are draconian.

Date expired on 1 September

The bill is not a secret. about PLN 1.79 million in yearly instalments of the concession fee and PLN 258,5 1000 of the extension fee, i.e. the price for the distribution of receivables per year. As the KRRiT associate Prof. Tadeusz Kowalski explained, failing to pay the second starts charging interest since the concession was issued; On September 3, they already exceeded PLN 400 thousand. The deadline was September 1. The Council announced a reminder, and after a failure of 7 days it can issue an executive title and mention the substance to taxation execution.

Twenty million pass.

For the ten-year ground concession, the Republic is expected to pay a full of around PLN 17.85 million — precisely the same they received to pay in Poland24 and ViDoc TV. A year later, KRRiT set the fee for fresh tv at PLN 19,887, besides spread out into 10 instalments plus the extension fee. TVN paid in 2024 15.6 million, Polsat the same year earlier. The statutory ceiling is even higher — for 2027 it is PLN 42,689,939 — although the actual rates have been around the mediate of the border for years.

For comparison, the satellite concession costs PLN 16,497 in 2027, and the program broadcast only on the net does not require a concession in general, it is adequate to register. The full barrier so concerns 1 circumstantial good: access to free terrestrial television, which is the average with the top coverage and the lowest threshold on the viewer's side.

So let's ask what you buy for these millions. Not the studio, due to the fact that it should be built separately. Not a band, due to the fact that journalists, operators and assemblers pay out of their own pocket. It's not a signal, due to the fact that the broadcast from the transmitters is accounted for by a separate monthly invoice. The Act states explicitly that the concession fee is independent of fees for the right to dispose of frequency. Only consent is given for the concession itself. A paper that says you can start spending real money.

High threshold, not wall

Who's gonna be able to put that kind of money before they evidence the first footage? A abroad company accounting in euro. A broadcaster who's already sitting on a multiplex and just renewing his seat. In addition, public television, which broadcasts by law, does not request concessions at all, and so this fee does not pay any gold. The editorial of 20 igniters with an thought for a fresh information format does not fall out due to quality, just due to the fact that the bill opens from respective million.

I will not compose that the marketplace is concrete due to the fact that the Republic and in Poland24 pressed through this door in 2024. This is why, however, they are the best proof of how much it costs to squeeze: the fresh broadcaster pays the most erstwhile he has the least, that is, before he can build the revenue. A fee of this amount can act as a very effective entry barrier, which rewards those who already have capital. And no 1 has explained why the administrative consent to broadcast is expected to cost 20 million if it does not fund a single program.

The Gospel widow threw everything she had into the vault to keep the temple. Not for a fee for letting her in. On Sunday, the Republic's spectators dropped not on cameras, not on programs and not on salaries, but on authoritative receipts. They passed their self-sacrifice exam. It is time to ask the legislator why they had to approach him in the first place.

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Manaster Love — writer and journalist. He writes about Central Europe, demography, household politics, religion, public institutions and the political economy of European societies. president Information Agency, independent Polish press agency, and permanent commentator TelevisionRepublica. In 2018-2023, a socio-political commentator of Polish tv and Polish Radio. In his work, he analyses how demographic change, family, religion and institutions find Europe’s long-term future — with peculiar attention to the experience of Central and east Europe. Awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order of Polish Revival for outstanding merits for culture and public service. Awarded a medal in the UN economical and Social Council (ECOSOC) for working on social policy.

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