In the United Kingdom,most public television programming is paid for by a yearly licence fee assessed on every household.Television detection vans go through neighbourhoods to detect unlicensed households and keep them from viewing without paying.This is a good example of the _____ provision of _____.
A) public;private goods
B) public;goods that are made artificially excludable in consumption
C) public;common resources
D) private;artificially scarce goods

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This is an example of public goods that are made artificially excludable in consumption. The television programming is a public good because it is non-rivalrous (one person's consumption does not diminish availability for others) and non-excludable (difficult to prevent someone from consuming it once it is available). However, through the use of a licence fee and detection vans, the consumption of the programming is made excludable, making it artificially excludable in consumption.

In the United Kingdom,most Public Television Programming Is Paid for by a Yearly