Defund the operation and privatize it. Let it find its voice and prove its worth as a commercial proposition. Tax dollars have no business funding anything but an emergency broadcast system.
In order to get support from the left to defund it, we must first turn it conservative. Then they will have the choice of ConservativePBS, or NoPBS. Just don't give them the status quo.
How do you propose PBS do that? Should it become a cable channel where consumers have no choice but to pay for its existence if they want to have cable? That's the way cable tv works. Maybe Viacrud should pick up PBS. I've lost count of the number of channels Viacom forces cable companies to take via packaging. I would like to pick and choose which channels we receive. Even if it costs more.