French President Nicolas Sarkozy said he would introduce a tax on Internet access and mobile phones, and through this fund public television.
In particular, Sarkozy said he was going to arrange a ' cultural revolution in public television ' country.
According to the President, it should be funded in part by taxes on profits from advertising received by the French private TV channels.
In addition, Sarkozy said that plans to introduce a fee for use of mobile phones and Internet access, according to news. finance. ua.
At the same time he stressed that these taxes would be negligible, and added that his proposals are aimed at improving the quality of TV programs and the fight against the dominance of advertising on TV.
According to him, it is assumed that the new fees should help in the financing of two French television, where advertising will not be.
Recall that Sarkozy had already proposed to close the English-language news channel France 24, which began broadcasting just over a year ago.
The President said that 'at the taxpayers' money I'm not ready to broadcast the channel, which does not speak in French '.
Note that there are similar France 24 television channels in French and Arabic. In addition, at the end of this year, planned to run Spanish-language version of the channel.
Sarkozy is convinced that instead of these plans is to open a channel, which broadcasts in French only.
According to the president, the new channel can be called France Monde ( France- World), combining the resources in it France 24, Radio France International and the French cultural television channel TV5 Monde for an international audience.
Sarkozy stressed that this channel is a must 'as soon as possible, at least in this year '.
... - But we prefer to do it in French because the French to provide a vision in Arabic or English, may be interesting, but it will be difficult to be understood '.
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