Out of the top one-hundred 'hot' topics that Germans will engage upon and get hyped-up about....is the TV tax. The younger the person....the more likely they state the case that the TV tax is corrupted and 'unfair'. A fair number of the 18 to 25 year olds....don't watch public TV, or listen to public radio....to which I'd say it's probably in the one-third of this age group.
Anytime that an event occurs where wasteful efforts occur within German public TV, these people have a platform to ask in public circles....why force me to pay the TV tax (currently at 18.36 Euro per month, per household).
The public TV response....to put quality media out, it costs money.
So enters the case of the RBB 'boss' who has created a dozen-odd events which were poorly thought through, and some money decisions were not laid out in front of the 'board'. The luxury limo with massage seats? That was probably a pretty stupid blunder to admit in public.
But this brings the issue of the dozen other public TV/radio 'bosses' up. Public frustration now exists, and there's probably going to have to be a audit to take place. My best guess....a number of stupid things will be brought up and there might be fifty-odd managers and 'bosses' let go....to clean up the mess over the whole system.
Evolving public TV in Germany? It's been a topic in existence for over twenty years. Once Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB+) came around.....the radio system should have been under heavy consideration for a change. The necessity to run two major news networks via ARD and ZDF? That's probably another area which should have evolved into just one news service.
Will anything occur now? It certainly won't be the coalition government pushing this. The board of governors might get hyped up and demand some demonstration of change, but I doubt that they have that type of interest.
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