Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president, on Tuesday proposed scrapping advertising on France’s public television stations and financing them through a levy on the advertising revenues of private stations and a tax on internet and mobile phone operators’ turnover. The plan, still in its early stages, was the opening move in a much broader liberalisation of France’s broadcasting industry, including changes to ownership rules and advertising restrictions, analysts said. (Financial Times)
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