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French Public Broadcasting Staffers Go on Strike to Protest Plan to Eliminate TV License Fee

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Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentThousands of staffers and freelancers working for France’s public broadcasting groups, spanning France Televisions, France 24, Arte and Radio France, went on strike on Tuesday in Paris to protest against the government’s proposed bill to eliminate a TV license fee that finances nearly 85% of their annual budgets.It’s considered to be French broadcasters’ biggest strike in the last 30 years, according to a source at France Televisions.

Flagship programs such as morning news show “Telematin” didn’t air a new episode on Tuesday for the first time in three decades, along with “Complement d’Enquête” and a flurry of others.The demonstration was held in front of the National Assembly, where the proposed bill to phase out the TV license fee will be presented before the council of ministers on July 6.

This planned bill is part of newly reelected President Emmanuel Macron’s measures aimed at “increasing the buying power of French households.” Macron’s government previously scrapped the housing tax as part of the same plan.

The license fee, which was created 70 years ago to help fund French public radio and TV channels, applies to each household owning a TV set and currently cost €138 per year.

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