will close the corporation? Member of Knesset Shlomo Karai who received the position of Minister of Communications in the new government this evening (Wednesday), previously expressed a strong opinion in favor of closing the Public Broadcasting Corporation here 11. Immediately upon accepting the position, Karai said about the privatization of the Broadcasting Corporation that “we will study the issue and work to have a competitive communications market here.”
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The incoming Minister of Communications @shlomo_karhi On the privatization of the broadcasting corporation: “We will study the issue and work to have a competitive media market here” pic.twitter.com/sAyPR1MH1D
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According to a month, following a report that the Likud party wants to close the corporation, Karai said that “I don’t know the talk about it in the negotiation rooms, but this is the result I have been leading to for the past three years in promoting an agenda of a free media market and competition.” He stated: “There is no reason for us to continue to finance public broadcasting with almost a billion NIS per year. The corporation first, GLA later. It is also possible at the same time.”
Karai also claimed at the time that at the same time as the Public Broadcasting Corporation is closed, it is possible to close GLAC at the same time: “We are in favor of a free market and competition. We are in favor of a private market, a free market. We want to allow as many channels as possible to compete, whoever broadcasts good content and the public wants it will survive.”