{"id":81857,"date":"2013-07-09T17:12:45","date_gmt":"2013-07-09T15:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=81857"},"modified":"2013-07-10T08:42:36","modified_gmt":"2013-07-10T06:42:36","slug":"tv-license-fee-increase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/81857-tv-license-fee-increase.html","title":{"rendered":"TV license fee increase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The price of a TV licence in South Africa is set to increase by 6% &#8211; from R250 per year to R265 per year \u2013 from 1 September 2013.<\/p>\n<p>The <a title=\"SABC\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/313653-South-African-Broadcasting-Corporation-(SABC)\">SABC<\/a> told MyBroadband that South Africans will have to pay R265 per year for a TV license from 1 September.<\/p>\n<p>The price of a concessionary TV licence will increase from the current R70 per year to R74 per year.<\/p>\n<p>Concessionary TV licence fees are available to people who receive of a social grant from the state and people who are older than 70.<\/p>\n<p>In terms of the Broadcasting Act any person or entity that has in its possession and\/or uses a TV set must have a TV license.<\/p>\n<p>A licence remains payable, irrespective of whether a television set in one&#8217;s possession is used or not.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on TV licenses<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"MultiChoice and SABC license fees\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/telecoms\/8726-no-way-multichoice-tells-sabc-on-tv-licenses.html\"><strong>No Way, Multichoice tells SABC on TV licenses<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"SABC hounds dead woman for TV license\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/69550-sabc-hounds-dead-woman-for-tv-license.html\"><strong>SABC hounds dead woman for TV license<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"TV licence fee increase\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/telecoms\/9072-tv-licence-fee-increase.html\"><strong>TV licence fee increase<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa\u2019s TV license fees are set to increase from 1 September 2013 for both standard and concessionary licenses<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":73598,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[35,361,20399],"class_list":["post-81857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadcasting","tag-headline","tag-sabc","tag-tv-licenses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81857"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81861,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81857\/revisions\/81861"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}