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The channel is trying to reduce its obligations to produce public broadcasting such as religious programmes.
Surely, it is the social purpose of public broadcasting that needs to be justified, not its profitability.
Let us give the public a chance to take part in the experiment, which is a public broadcasting experiment.
The existing audience will make choices which will inevitably take viewers from the public broadcasting and commercial sectors.
But the conditions during the experiment will not be the same as those that would obtain if permanent public broadcasting were to take place.
He spoke about the death of public broadcasting and tried to redefine public service broadcasting as public interest broadcasting.
This is partly achieved through a strong, viable public broadcasting service with adequate funding.
For example, it is very difficult for public broadcasting to survive in an increasingly commercialised environment.
There are already controlling bodies for public broadcasting: the broadcasting councils.
