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State and civil service, Jean-Luc Mélenchon

Public broadcasting: Introduce a dedicated, universal and progressive broadcasting levy

Direction of change: creation of a scheme, compared with current law.

The lever. Public radio and television: funding, governance, merger of companies, possible privatisation. Direction rule: ↑ higher public funding.

« Garantir l’indépendance, le pluralisme et le financement de l’audiovisuel public en instaurant une contribution audiovisuelle dédiée, universelle et progressive »1

Translation by the editorsGuarantee the independence, pluralism and funding of public broadcasting by introducing a dedicated, universal and progressive broadcasting levy

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Dedicated contribution with no amount: the cost-schedule option assumes funding on an unchanged scope.

Current law, sources and limits of the cost schedule

Current law. Licence fee abolished in 2022. Funding through a share of VAT allocated to the « Avances à l'audiovisuel public » account (organic law allowing it to continue beyond 2024): €3,878.3m in the PLF 2026 (−1.8%). France Télévisions €2,440.6m, Radio France 648.0, Arte France 298.1, France Médias Monde 303.9, INA 103.5, TV5 Monde 84.2.

Horizon. full year 2032, €bn/year

Limits. The gain from privatisation is a static costing: it ignores transition costs (redundancy plans, takeover of commitments, broadcasting contracts), any compensated public service obligations and the sale proceeds, which are received only once and do not count in the annual balance. “Net” convention: €126.2m of the 2026 grant offsets tax effects linked to the abolition of the licence fee, which go back to the State (€54.4m for France Télévisions, €30.3m for Radio France); the central value deducts them (3,878.3 − 126.2 ≈ €3,752m for the abolition of all funding; 2,440.6 + 648.0 − 54.4 − 30.3 ≈ €3,004m for France Télévisions and Radio France, editors' calculations), the upper bound is the gross amount. The two options overlap (overlap declared). A privatisation of “public broadcasting” with no list of the companies concerned (same reading for all candidates, rule of 18 October 2026) is costed through the option privatisation-perimetre-non-dit: at the centre and as lower bound, France Télévisions and Radio France, the two main companies (€3.0bn net, 80% of the net grant); as upper bound, all the companies (€3.88bn gross). The final amount in the initial finance act for 2026 (LFI 2026) is not verified (amendments to restore funding under discussion).

How to read these amounts. These are static costs and revenues, with no feedback effect, over a full year: nothing on growth, employment or the revenue that economic activity would gain or lose. A higher net cost does not on its own make a worse policy, nor net savings a better one: each programme rests on an economic model (demand-led stimulus, lower compulsory levies, consolidation of the public accounts…) that the cost schedule does not settle. GDP itself measures a volume of activity, not well-being or the usefulness of what is produced. Economic models and feedback effects.

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  1. L’Avenir en commun (édition 2025), p. 14. Open the document at this page.

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