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Old 17 Jul 21, 12:59 AM  
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Channel 4 privatisation.

I was made fully aware that Channel 4 was set up and funded by public money from the start back in the mid 00’s.
Its presence to me back when it first aired in the 80’s and throughout and into the early to mid 90s was akin to that of the music of the time, Killing Joke, Cabaret Voltaire through to The Happy Mondays and Nirvana.
The programs, films and documentaries were cutting edge and thought provoking but suddenly at some point through the late 90s it lost its way, it strangely coincided with the rise and fall of New Labour (lol, whom ever thought that tribe up needs taken up where the bulls graze) the edge went and for some reason shock n awe both Internationally (the gulf war i&ii, quite literally) and the channels programming gave way to new levels of unthinkable terrible programming, the only shimmering light in the murky gloom was Jon Snow presenting a news show worthy of praise and adulation, more often that not it was kicked to the side and mainstream media channels won through but after some time even this island of thought provoking insight became a lame excuse for an advertisement for one set of particular values.
Channel 4, where did it all go wrong?
Sell it off and let market forces decide now if it’s relevant, oh, and that goes for the BBC as well.
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Old 17 Jul 21, 09:23 AM  
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Channel 4 was a pioneering channel when it was launched with some amazing avante guard programsming. It was the first mainstream TV channel in the world to show LGBT character in anything but a negative light but running 3 series of the wonderful Tales of The City books back in 1993 onwards and despite backlash about having gay themes on TV from politicians it was truly pioneering.

It also had a prominent remain news anchor Sarah Hogg but as she was married to a prominent Tory mp (son of Lord Haisham) it didnt go down too well being a public funded channel (shame as I really enjoyed her way of presenting and felt she was more impartial than BBC (ITN was banned in our house))

But since those heady days I fell it has lost its way. I had forgotten about it being publically funded and really cant remember anything except Its a Sin in the last 10 years or so that has stood out. It gets advertising revenue so yes time for it to stand or fall on its on 2 feet and maybe that spark it once had May return …..?
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Old 17 Jul 21, 09:28 AM  
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It was my understanding that channel 4 receives no public funding. If that’s the case, what’s the problem?
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Old 17 Jul 21, 09:53 PM  
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There’s been some very good British shows to come out of channel 4 in recent years e.g. It’s a Sin, This is England 86, 88 and 90, Flowers. Shameless…going back a bit further.
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Old 19 Jul 21, 01:26 PM  
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if they privatise channel 4, it will be a race to the bottom, channel 5 style.

whatever public/licence fee funds it gets these days (if any) goes towards content as part of that remit, everything else about channel 4 is already paid for by advertising and stuff, why would we sell off such a great asset, only for viacom or whoever to want to extract all the money they can from it?

same for the BBC. for what it costs per day, i'm happy for it to continue, i just wish their news department would start being more critical of the government like it should be

channel 4 is putting out some world class content, and the 40d/all4 streaming platform is one of the best i've ever used, up there with iplayer

instead of privatising ch4 and the bbc, they should have allowed them to pool resources with the "project kangaroo" service, which if it hadnt been blocked by the government/ofcom, would have probably rivalled netflix for content (and subscriber numbers) by now and made a good chunk of its income that way.
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Channel 4 receives no public funding. It is funded by advertising

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In its early years it was publicly owned as part of the Independent Broadcasting Authority receiving some funds from the ITV companies.

And for the content and variety it puts out I think BBC is well worth the 43.5 pence a day it costs

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