Very subjective I know, but in my experience most of the real garbage is put out by commercial channels. There are dozens of commercial channels on Freeview and the output of most is dismal. Give it a whirl on Friday or Saturday night and you'll see what I mean. OK, scrap the less-than-50p-a-day licence fee and force the Beeb to compete. You'll still be paying that money out by dint of the price increases on the stuff you'll see advertised. And the Beeb will have to dumb down to the level of the rest in order to get the ratings. Not least, adverts every ten minutes. Oh, and Radio 3 and the Proms and the BBC orchestras will probably vanish. They simply can't get the ratings. Maybe you don't care if you are a pop addict, a Chris Evans aficionado. Wow, you right-wing anti-BBC ideologues have some really great ideas for improving all our lives...