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UK enforces the same legally: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_licensing_in_the_Un...

We should do something like the UK does. We should have the American version of the BBC. I hate the networks totally and completely.

Are you under the impression that the BBC is the only television in the UK and it doesn't have other networks?

The American version of the BBC: PBS

PBS is a private company that receives very little funding from the public, and is mostly funded by local stations which in turn are funded through donations.

BBC is funded through an annual Television license fee, and supplemented through international distribution.

While US Public Television (largely PBS affiliates) and BBC have similar goals, fill a similar role. They're very different. Though maybe what you meant was that this is as close to BBC as the US has...