Channel 4 seems to work well. Publicly owned but not publicly funded (taxation, license fee, etc). The corporation created which runs it has certain conditions

Channel 4 seems to work well. Publicly owned but not publicly funded (taxation, license fee, etc). The corporation created which runs it has certain conditions placed on it to create programs in the interest of the general public that may not get created by a private corporation looking to only make profits for shareholders. Of course the current UK government wants to sell it off...