Australia did away with its TV license in 1974, and continues to operate the ABC as a government funded broadcast network comprising 5 TV channels and several radio stations.
It’s fine.
It’s fine.
BBC is world renowned, mention the BBC and most people know it due to its reach. I’m not so sure the same can be said for the ABC.
The BBC may be able to adapt if they loosing the license fee but it’ll be a shell of its former self.
The BBC had some technical innovations in Broadcast due to its funding model. Working there nearly ten years ago the underlying tech may of changed today but they where doing back then what is popular today. There online architecture could be described as micro services back then, micro-front ends, home-built PaaS which I think was way ahead of its time and the two unicorns I worked at since and countless tier one companies can only envy. I credit a lot of what I know due to my experiences at the BBC.
As an Aus resident, I barely consume any ABC media (occasionally the ABC site, for local news I haven't found elsewhere).
I am sure ABC also sells shows overseas, but a lot of Australian content, eg Harrow, is produced by American production companies and filmed in Australia.