Virgin Media lobbies Catherine Martin for licence fee revenue to level ‘unfair’ market

Virgin Media Television has called on media minister Catherine Martin to level the “unfair commercial market” faced by the firm and fund its €30 million annual public service broadcasting budget.

Last year, the government formed a cross-departmental group to review the current licence fee system, which is partially used to fund the operations of RTÉ and TG4.

In a letter to the media minister on March 27, Áine Ní Chaoindealbháin, managing director at Virgin Media ...