Nobody has the right to cheap strikes

The Young Liberals, affiliated with the Free Democratic Party, has called for successful programs on public television to be cancelled. According to the association’s president, Franziska Brandmann, expensive productions will not contribute to opinion-forming and political information.

There should be limits too

And she is right. Although the mission of public service broadcasters is also to provide a diverse entertainment programme, there should be limits to this. Instead of increasing broadcast fees, savings should finally be made on ARD and ZDF.

Of course, this should not start with informational programs. The transmission and classification of news is the main task of public service broadcasting. It includes a healthy amount of entertainment.

If you want to see, you must pay

But some offers are of interest to only a small part of the population, so that the high costs are not justified. As the young liberals correctly realized, these are also hit shows for Florian Silberisen – whose viewership numbers have been declining lately, As reported by schlagerfieber.de.

If broadcasters can’t cut costs, there’s only one thing to do: cancel them. Nobody has the right to cheap strikes. If you want to watch, you have to pay extra for shows like this.