Only a small percentage of the BBC is quality educational tv. Most of it is soaps, reality competition shows, and bad comedy(Mrs brown boys). Advocates vastly

Only a small percentage of the BBC is quality educational tv. Most of it is soaps, reality competition shows, and bad comedy(Mrs brown boys). Advocates vastly over estimate how much educational content they put out. It's very small compared to the mindless entertainment part. If you only paid for the education side of the BBC, you licence fee would probably be around 20 GBP annually.