TV licence fees
Sir, — I was amazed to read that in submissions to the Labour Party caucus the president of Actors Equity, Mr Tozer, had advocated a TV licence fee of $7B a year and that Labour’s former Minister of Broadcasting, Mr Douglas, appeared to acquiesce. This would be a serious imposition for a standard of television programmes where crudeness is often substituted for quality. Mr lan Fraser’s contention that there was no place for a Minister of Broadcasting is reminiscent of the disastrous set-up under the last Labour Government which drifted almost to insolvency. At a time when everyone is expected to economise, television should do likewise and not make the burden of TV licences even harder to bear. — Yours, etc.,
J. F. GARVEY,
Westport. September 29, 1979.
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