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Babiš Is Considering Changes in the Financing of Public Media. Instead of Money From the Budget, They Could Be Paid for with a Share of Taxes

Public service media will have stable and predictable funding, Prime Minister Andrej Babiš (ANO) told Deník N and Czech Television (ČT) on Thursday. He wants to give public service media a fixed amount of money for the entire term of government. However, the coalition has not yet discussed a specific model. On a possible change to the law on financing ČT and...

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The law that changes the financing of public media, which the government coalition pushed through in the first reading without a broader discussion with the opposition and the professional community, may be fundamentally changed. According to information from Novinky, the government is now calculating the possibility that instead of a contribution from the state budget, the media would be paid with a share of collected taxes according to a set c…

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Public service media will have stable and predictable funding, Prime Minister Andrej Babiš (ANO) told Deník N and Czech Television (ČT) on Thursday. He wants to give public service media a fixed amount of money for the entire term of government. However, the coalition has not yet discussed a specific model. On a possible change to the law on financing ČT and...

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Prague - Public service media will have stable and predictable funding, Prime Minister Andrej Babiš (ANO) told Deník N and Czech Television (ČT). He wants to give public service media a fixed amount of money for the entire term of government. However, the coalition has not yet discussed a specific model. The Novinky.cz server also reported on a possible change to the law on the financing of ČT and Czech Radio (ČRo). According to it, instead of a…

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Prime Minister Andrej Babiš (ANO) admitted in an interview with Czech Television that the valorization formula, which according to the proposal, after the transfer of public media funding to the state budget of Czech Television (ČT) and Czech Radio (ČRo), is to increase the budget in the event of ten percent cumulative inflation, could be reduced to six percent. He made the changes in the proposal conditional on the consent of coalition partners.

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Novinky.cz broke the news on Thursday, November 5, 2026.
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