BBC Four does a good job. BBC 2 has bits from Cambridge Folk Festival, and that occasionally includes stuff that deserves to be termed folk. And BBC Radio 4 and sometimes 3. And probably on some regional and local BBC channels and stations. All in all the BBC is not doing too bad a job, when you look at the altrnatives

For, apart from that there's virtually nothing, in England anyway. The commertcial channels, terrestrial, cable or satellite, couldn't be less interested. (And I only say virtually because nobody could watch or listen to all of them, obviously, and it's conceivable something might have slipped through. But I doubt it. Leaving aside some local radio, and not much of that so far as I can see.)

Still, folk isn't about being a couch potato, it's about getting out and doing it live and hearing it live. Until The Day the Music Dies, which is what Kim Howells is working towards right now.