[James]

From what I've heard of PBS it sounds similar but smaller in scale. The BBC is a big corporation, because basically every household (apart from over-75s) in the country has to pay the 150 pounds a year license, so they get 3.7 billion in total from that, and they have an annual 5 billion budget.

https://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/check-...and-costs-top2 <- reading that I'm surprised you can still get the reduced price black-and-white TV license. Didn't know people still had them.