First off, stop calling the third-tier television broadcaster industry "public". Public has been referred and classed as a second-tier public or government funded televisin broadcasting industry, to where commercial is the first-tier television broadcasting sector. Then you would not mistaken community television as being similar to "public" television. The problems existing is that normally CTV stations being too vast in covering so many with a city municipality, which makes it extremely difficult in rasing funding membership fees for a about 10% of the total population of one CTV broadcast area. Also, with CTV stations resorting to more popular from outside their service community areas, they are purposely attempting to survive on attracting advertising instead of sponsors,memberships and more. I'm sure that pays the governmentfor public programming a similar amount for several years, but they also could be either growing their capabilities, services and employed staff, which in return raises cable network's financial funding to be used within their organization first and then distributed to the outter CTV stations. Bus has anyone checked their books that they can be assured they are getting sufficient funding through the cable networks. Therefore, if you do not enquire and continue to put the government's for public programming back door checks, they will liable to do anything they want in which they would justify they are supporting CTV stations, and that would be a shame.