Recently in Poland, there is a discussion about our "public" TV (TVP) funding. There are people for and against the "licence fee" ("abonament"), but the BBC is always brought as an example of good (if not the best) public television. Having experienced how politicians treat the TV, and how it handles it's "mission", I don't believe it is possible to achieve BBC quality in Polish TV.
Therefore a little crazy idea came to my mind, which basically boils down to having our TV to broadcast BBC signal with (optional) translation. It certainly would be cheaper, we would have the quality of BBC programs (monty python, little britain, nature and documentary, etc.). Moreover, we will learn something more about the world, avoiding "country lock-in" and being so "polish-centric" as we are now. Local news, are after all better handled for quite a while already, as well as domestic popular productions.
More seriously, I am all for the idea of having the commercial TVs to be granted funds for specific projects, and this could also include common TV-Cinema productions. Documentaries might be also subsidized, but as Jacek Hugo-Bader's series in Polsat (IIRC) on Russia proves, it can be done with private funding as well. I think such an approach would be cheaper, and more competition would be in place.
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