Editing Television licence (section)

===New Zealand===
Licence fees were first used in New Zealand to fund the radio services of what was to become the [[New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation]]. Television was introduced in 1960 and with it the television licence fee, later known as the public broadcasting fee. This was capped at [[New Zealand dollar|NZ$]]100 a year in the 1970s, and the country's two television channels, while still publicly owned, became increasingly reliant on advertising. From 1989, it was collected and disbursed by the Broadcasting Commission ([[NZ On Air]]) on a contestable basis to support local content production. The public broadcasting fee was abolished in July 1999.<ref>{{cite web |last1=New Zealand Government |title=Broadcasting Amendment Act 1999 |url=https://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/1999/0063/latest/whole.html#DLM30043 |access-date=24 April 2025}}</ref><ref>[http://www.treasury.govt.nz/budget/1999/pdfs/exec-sum99.pdf Investing in the Next Generation] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160216134431/http://www.treasury.govt.nz/budget/1999/pdfs/exec-sum99.pdf |date=16 February 2016 }}, Economic and Fiscal Forecast Summary, [[New Zealand Treasury]], 1999</ref><ref name="NZabolish"/> NZ On Air was then funded by a direct appropriation from the Ministry for Culture and Heritage.