Pretty much all of northern Europe has 1-3 channels funded by license - if you own a tv or media device that can access the channels then you are required to pay every year. For all intents and purposes it is a tax. In return we get some fairly decent channels without ads, that has a requirement to enlighten and educate the public in a broad spectrum of opinions both culturally and with regards to news. PBS like, but they also produce quality game shows, some reality-TV (Robinson/Survivor is a swedish PBS invention!, "Dancing with the stars" is BBC and "Married at First Sight" is Danish PBS) and the occasional quality drama/crime/etc.

Most of these countries also have commercial alternatives (Norway is the last I can think of which got commercial alternatives with the advent of satellite dishes in the early 90ties I think - Norway being sparsely populated and relatively being extremely elongated and mountainous. ), but they rarely have bigger ratings than the public option unless it some popular sports-event or a big movie or drama-series...