!!!Presseförderung

Press subsidies, direct financial assistance for nearly all daily 
newspapers and many weeklies, introduced at federal level (and also in 
some provinces) in 1975. Press subsidies based on circulation figures 
were basically distributed evenly between 1975 and 1984; in 1985 
general press subsidies were supplemented by "special press 
subsidies designed to maintain media variety"; they are mainly 
granted to newspapers which are of "special importance for 
disseminating political information and shaping political 
opinions" and which do not hold "a dominant market 
position". The general subsidy rates for high-circulation papers 
varied between ATS 4.1 million (1976) and 
ATS 4.6 million (1998), for low-circulation papers between 
ATS 2 million (1976) and ATS 1.8 million (1998). 
Various newspapers receive an additional sum (between 
ATS 14 million (1976) and ATS 34 million per year 
(1993)) in special press subsidies. The total sum of federal press 
subsidies in 1998 amounted to about ATS 216 million in 1998 
(1976: ATS 65 million); less than 5% of the subsidies are 
used for the training of  Journalists. In addition, there is a special 
arrangement for magazines ("Publizistikfoerderung") which 
amounted to about ATS 6.5 million in 1997.

!Literature
Institut fuer Publizistik und Kommunikationswissenschaften 
der Universitaet Salzburg (ed.), Medienbericht 4, 1993.


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