The main beneficiaries of the windfall are the large publishers, including listed companies such as the TX Group (formerly Tamedia) and the NZZ. The Federal Council wants them to use taxpayers' money to boost their dividends. That can't be right.
The economic argument for media funding is not convincing. In recent years, the country's five market-dominating publishers have earned around half a billion Swiss francs annually and paid out cambodia rcs data dividends in the hundreds of millions. The publishers and their shareholders can therefore finance their operational tasks themselves.
The publishers’ arguments are eyewash
The publishers continue to argue that the state must pay for their "transformation to the Internet." This is a smokescreen, because this transformation has long since taken place. The large publishers say that they already generate up to 80 percent of their profits in the digital business area.
Finally, publishers are calling for subsidies because they have to disseminate "democracy-relevant information," which means they are essential to the state and essential to the system. This is also not convincing. Firstly, publishers who are not dependent on state funding are much more credible. And secondly, publishers will publish their daily newspapers even without taxpayers' money. If they no longer want to run their own business, they will definitely find buyers for their newspapers.