re: #3 dragonfire1981

Does anyone remember the Mutual Of Omahas “Wild Kingdom”? Privately funded by an insurance company. How about Beakmans world? Commercial TV.
For a far more contemporary example we have Through The Wormhole.
science.discovery.com
Winged Planet?

My point is that good educational programming can and has been done by the private sector. I’m not saying to de fund PBS. I’d like too have both. I am saying that there is to this very day lots of quality science programming on from the private sector.

So given the premise above how do we explain all that good science and education programming since Reagan that did not go all Honey Boo Boo?