public service broadcasting

public service broadcasting
n [U]
(in Britain) radio or television broadcasting by the BBC. The aim of public service broadcasting is to make programmes of a high standard that educate, inform and entertain, and the BBC received a royal charter to do this in 1927. Anyone who owns a television must pay a licence fee, which pays for the service.

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