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Mr Khan said:

Quite serious. Television needs a not-for-profit voice to attempt to counterbalance the commercialism in what is still the dominant medium, which isn't to say that commercialism is bad, but a haven from it is needed, and we should work to preserve that haven if we can.

Public good.

In a day and age when you can get strangers on the internet to Kickstart your next oil change, I don't think it's necessary for the federal government to spend money it doesn't have to keep afloat a channel that isn't watched by anyone over the age of 3 or under the age of 1000.