One cannot deny a certain sense of irony to the 15 men and one woman who are members of the KEF finance commission and who regularly calculate the needs of the public service broadcasters.

The 22nd report, which was published in the spring, says at the beginning: “Welcome to the complex world of the KEF procedure for determining the radio license fee.” The threatened complexity becomes impressive on the 400 A4 pages that follow documented.

But how is the radio license fee calculated?