Second channel
Sir, — At $45.00 p.a. — that is 12.33 cents a day a household, or three cents a day a head of population — the colour television licence fee is the biggest entertainment and information bargain in history. The suggestion that the public will not pay an extra $lO.OO p.a. (2.7 cents a day) to maintain the two channel service is sheer nonsense when, without option, the average household is loaded with an extra 10c to 15c a day for milk, and faces increased charges of 16c a day for electric power. Mr Muldoon would be unwise to allow his antipathy for the news sections of the television service to blind him to the
immense value of the twochannel service as a whole. The public interest and investment in it will not be put off by an extra 2.7 cents a day. — Yours, etc., J. E. RYAN. April 10, 1979.
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Press, 11 April 1979, Page 24
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149Second channel Press, 11 April 1979, Page 24
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