Television fee is worth every cent

The television fee must always be paid when you can receive and watch television transmissions. These pages will help you find information on the television fee, when you have to pay it and what you get for it.

When you start using a television set, you must notify FICORA of it. On the basis of the notification, the authority will send a television fee invoice to the television user.

Television fees in the digital era

Analogue television transmissions ended in aerial households on 31 August 2007 and in the cable network on 29 February 2008. The obligation to pay the television fee continues after this, if you watch television programmes, e.g.:

• via a digital television or television with a digital set-top box;
• via a satellite receiver;
• via mobile television (DVB-H)
• via the computer, for example the IPTV.

European model for television operations

FICORA collects television fees for the State Television and Radio Fund to be further used to finance the operations of the Finnish Broadcasting Company.

Also, all other Nordic countries and nearly all western European countries finance public radio and television services by television fees.

In Finland, the number of television notifications is currently about two million.