Chaves threatens radio and TV blackout if frequency cost is not updated

The president of the Republic, Rodrigo Chaves, threatened this Wednesday with a radio and television blackout, if by September the Legislative Assembly does not approve a bill presented by the executive branch to modify the calculation of the amount that the concessionaires must pay for the annual broadcasting tax.Chaves said that it will not extend the extension of 15 months granted by Zapote in June last year for the validity of the concession…

Obando: They imagine that Cisneros and Chaves have the power to get the media out of the air San José, 04 Apr (elmundo.cr) – Independent deputy Johana Obando issued a strong warning about the possibility that Rodrigo Chaves’ government will seek to limit freedom of the press in the country. Through its social networks, the legislator criticized the statements of the president and the Minister of Science and Technology, Paula Bogantes, in which t…

The Executive's legal initiative proposes to update the fee for the use of frequencies in proportion to the revenues of broadcasters. The Government had extended the expiration period of the concessions for 15 months to allow time for the passage of this law.

The president of Costa Rica, Rodrigo Chaves, threatened to shut down radio and television frequencies in the country in September if the bill that he proposed last year to reform the charges made to radio and television companies for the use of spectrum was not approved. According to the newspaper El Observador, the president and the Minister of Innovation, Science, Technology and Telecommunications, Paula Bogantes, again criticized that these c…