Ownership and funding in the TV and film industries Public Service Broadcasting (PSB) In the 1920's Public Broadcasting started being thought about by the Government as in the USA they already where using radios to sell products to people, that's where we get the name soap opera from, over in Briton. But we didn't like the advertising model over in the US as it was full of low quality content to attract a wide mass audience and only for pure entertainment. We thought it was more exploitative and we wanted something that "informed, educate and then entertain." But the Government wanted to fund this service but then problems then raised from this being a Government funded thing would mean that some people might think that it being used for proper-gander reasons. To get round this. they came up with licencing fee. The fee was put in place like taxes so it was more like the population was paying for it rather than the Government paying for it. so people origi...