The imposition initially proposed by the Government for RTP to end advertising by 2027 has fallen. After all, it becomes just a recommendation.
The Minister of Parliamentary Affairs announced this Wednesday that RTP’s new concession contract recommends that the RTP1 should tend to stop being financed by advertising, without establishing a deadline.
This time, the initial imposition of its end in 2027 it fell.
In an interview with Portugal, Pedro Duarte added that the review of the concession contract for RTP’s public radio and television service was put out for public consultation, this Wednesday, and that “one of the measures there has to do” with its financing.
“We had an original intention of freeing RTP from commercial advertising” by 2027 “in order to be closer to people and, therefore, reach more people”.
However, “parliament stopped it” and “democratically we were, in a certain sense, forced to give up this original idea”.
Parliament had accused the Government of wanting a . At the time, all parties, except the AD, were against the proposal.
It is now recommended that “RTP should tend to be in the coming years, we don’t have a deadline, but it should move in the direction that RTP1 stops being financed by commercial advertising”, said the government official.
