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It's also a lot cheaper, I imagine. BBC costs ±£145/household/year. Is it possible to determine the public cost of RTVE?

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$125/household - that's an amazing deal. We're blessed with some high-quality programming from the CBC here in Canada but would happily bump in a contribution to add BBC to the mix.

I'm not quite sure how you got that number, as £145 ≈ $181 USD. In any case, here in a US border city I get free access to CBC and PBS which is rather convenient. As I understand it, those on the other side of the river get access to both stations as well, so the local affiliates target both countries. BBC America and BBC World News are only available through cable providers, as far as I recall, though they seem to be included in many cable packages (as is CBC and obviously PBS).

As a pedantic note, BBC America shows British TV including programmes from non-BBC stations.

Let say UK population is 65M so 65 * 145 makes a grand total of £9425.000.000. Forget to calculate the cost of rubbish TVE, the government does not allow it, even we pay for it.

The fee is per household, not person - however, there's no need to estimate the funding as the accounts are public: http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/insidethebbc/reports/...

The actual total income in 2015/16 was £4,805M, with £3,735M coming from the licence fee.

For comparison, annual cost of a TV licence in other countries

  - Denmark: €332 (approx $360)
  - France:  €136 (approx $145)
  - Germany: €215 (approx $230)
  - Italy:   €100 (approx $230)
  - Ireland: €160 (approx $107)
  - Norway:  €298 (approx $321)
  - Sweden:  €247 (approx $266)
  - Switzerland:   €439 (approx $473)

Forget to calculate the cost of rubbish TVE, the government does not allow it, even we pay for it.

How so? Their budgets are public[1]. It's a total of around 975M€/year, 920M€ of which come from direct and indirect taxes. There are about 18.35M households in Spain[2], so it costs ~50€/household/year.

[1] http://economia.elpais.com/economia/2016/07/21/actualidad/14...

[2] http://www.ine.es/inebaseDYN/ech30274/ech_inicio.htm

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