The Commission for Communications Regulation is planning to levy an administrative charge on RTE and independent radio and television broadcasters to fund the costs of regulation.
ComReg today issued a consultation document on fees and charges to be paid by broadcast distributors, including cable and MMDS operators.
It proposed a charge of €100 per transmitter, which would imply a charge of €60,000 for RTE and €16,000 for independent broadcasters contracted to the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland.
The same charge would apply to future free-to-air digital terrestrial networks.
ComReg is proposing to charge cable, MMDS and deflector operations 50 cent per subscriber. This is instead of the 3.5% of turnover companies like Chorus and NTL currently pay.
