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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 7763

21 July 2000
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/culture
Culture Ministers began, in Lille on Thursday, the debate on the future of public television and ways of financing it

Lille, 20/07/2000 (Agence Europe) - At their informal meeting in Lille, the Culture Ministers began discussing the place of public television in the new audio-visual landscape. Profound ongoing technological changes mean important and costly adaptations for these media. Yet, the question of how they should be financed is a pressing one. Private operators, who denounce the dual funding of public television, through State aid and advertising, have lodged several complaints with the European...

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