re: Public service
A private media can be bought by someone who can change its editorial.
That's free enterprise, sure, but it's not freedom of expression.
State owned TV Channels are required to show programs meant for minorities, programs that don't interest most of the viewers, but at least they are shown.
Private TV channels aim for the guts, not the brain.
Here, there are 33 TV channels in 6 or 7 different languages, privately owned, state owned from 8 different countries. Some have commercials, some don't.
During Apollo, we had no commercial cuts when the astronauts were moonwalking.
Raoul