"It's not reasonable for public broadcasters to keep doing things the same way."
As a public broadcaster, Phoenix has government representatives on its board.
When the public broadcasters do mention the opposition, it is usually in a negative light.
Now, after some changes in the law, it's much harder for any political party to influence the public broadcasters.
In most countries, the public broadcasters were the only television services available until the 1980s.
They do development work for both public and commercial broadcasters.
But public broadcasters were not defending themselves against budget cuts.
A public broadcaster, set up in 2005, is intended to be free from government control.
A common means of providing a cultural subsidy is to have public broadcasters pay for program development.
Many countries have public broadcasters, which get funding from the government to broadcast television shows and radio programs.
