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PNL Senator Sorin Rosca Stanescu, membru in Senate’s Culture Committee, stated that increasing TV tax is needed, as advertising on public TV should be stopped out of respect for the viewers, that shouldn’t see shows interrupted by advertising, Mediafax wrote.

He also said that TVR, as a public TV, must be funded and “kept on shoulders” by the population.

“This means public TV and it serves the population. In perspective, there should be found financial means so that Public TV could resist financially without advertising, and the advertising should go to the commercial TVs”, Rosca Stanescu added.

He also mentioned such a decision is a difficult one and it cannot be taken by sacrificing pulic TV and won’t be possible until the calculations will show there are also other means that would insure TVR’ survival.

On October 17th, during a debate related to the modification of Audiovisual Law, Rosca Stanescu said that Senate’s Culture Committee will come out with a draft of legislative proposal to forbid public TV to broadcast advertising. He also said that, by the end of the year, the law for public TV’ organization and functioning will be modified so TVR “couldn’t get advertising, on BBC’s model”.

Narcisa Iorga and Cristina Trepcea, members of CNA, were both in favor of eliminating advertising from national TV.

Iorga wants the modification of state TV’s law in order to eliminate advertising but also wants the elimination of must-carry principle when it comes of commercial TVs and that principle to apply only for state TV.

At her turn, Trepcea supports a state TV without advertising, saying that it competes with commercial TVs for advertising and there are a lot of consequences because of that.

When it comes of moment Rosca Stanescu’s project will reach to Parliament, the senator offered a few clarifications