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Do You Know What Does Your TV License Pay For?

Heng-Cheong Leong, MyAppleMenu

A lot have been said about the annual television license fee in the blogosphere. But before you add your voices to the mix, consider the following questions: 1. Do you know what are the television programming that are funded (entirely or partially) by your license fee? 2. Of these programmes, which are the ones you want the government to stop funding via license fee? Should Mediacorp continue to produce these programmes, and who will fund them?

There is no point, in my opinion, of crying for license fees to be reduced or removed without answering these two fundamental questions.