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    • Tuesday, 28 November, 2023
      Media
      Channel 4 eyes accessing debt facility after worst ad decline since 2008

      Publicly owned, commercially funded broadcaster facing ‘market shock territory’, chief executive tells MPs

      Channel 4 headquarters
    • Wednesday, 8 November, 2023
      Channel 4’s independent production quota to rise in TV reforms

      Move designed to maintain media plurality as broadcaster seeks to boost finances by producing its own programmes

    • Monday, 2 October, 2023
      ReviewTelevision
      Partygate, Channel 4 — Covid-era docudrama pulls no punches

      Georgie Henley and Ophelia Lovibond recreate lockdown-breaking parties at No 10 Downing Street

      A group of people at a party cheersing
    • Sunday, 17 September, 2023
      Digital Media
      UK broadcasters develop free digital TV service to take on streaming

      Freely will be built into next-generation smart sets, in effect taking Freeview platform on to internet

      A remote control being pointed at a TV
    • Monday, 21 August, 2023
      ReviewTelevision
      The Price of Truth, Channel 4 — punchy portrait of Russian journalism under fire

      Documentary follows Novaya Gazeta editor Dmitry Muratov’s fight to keep publishing in the face of mounting threats

    • Wednesday, 12 July, 2023
      Channel 4 boss says BBC facing a ‘very difficult situation’

      Alex Mahon confident that a conduct complaint against a presenter would be escalated to broadcaster’s top management

      Alex Mahon
    • Friday, 14 April, 2023
      ReviewTelevision
      Lyra, Channel 4 review — an elegiac reflection on journalist Lyra McKee

      Documentary about the life and death of the Northern Irish reporter feels both personal and vital

      A photo of Lyra McKee with her arms crossed in front of a colourful abstract mural
    • Tuesday, 28 March, 2023
      UK politics
      Amazon and Google told to let UK radio stations stream on smart speakers

      Requirement part of biggest overhaul of rules for online and traditional broadcasting in 20 years

      Amazon and Google logos
    • Thursday, 5 January, 2023
      UK television production companies warn on Channel 4 reforms

      Government rejects privatisation in favour of changes to preserve broadcaster’s financial sustainability

      Channel 4’s logo
    • Tuesday, 27 December, 2022
      ReviewTelevision
      Prince Andrew: The Musical, Channel 4 — royal narcissism makes for scandalous showtunes

      The programme has to tread a fine line when it comes to the allegations of sexual assault

      A woman sits looking horrified while a man make a curious gesture with his hand
    • Friday, 4 November, 2022
      UK politics
      Sunak expected to shelve plans to privatise Channel 4

      Privatisation expected to be among the many low-priority policies that will be scrapped by the prime minister

      Channel 4’s London headquarters
    • Thursday, 27 October, 2022
      ReviewTelevision
      Jimmy Carr Destroys Art, Channel 4 — grim and unedifying

      Programme in which a studio audience is asked to vote on whether to expunge ‘problematic’ artwork is woefully misguided

      A canvas suspended on a mesh screen is engulfed in flames in front of a crowd
    • Monday, 26 September, 2022
      ReviewTelevision
      Make Me Prime Minister channels The Apprentice to find the UK’s ‘alternative PM’

      Alastair Campbell and Baroness Warsi judge the ministerial potential of opinionated Britons on a new reality TV show

      A photo of Baroness Sayeeda Warsi and Alastair Campbell in suits standing in front of a black door with the number 10 on it
    • Tuesday, 20 September, 2022
      UK government ‘re-examining’ Channel 4 privatisation plan

      Marked change of tone from new culture secretary will raise broadcaster’s hopes of staying in public hands

      Michelle Donelan
    • Tuesday, 16 August, 2022
      Social Media
      UK’s young adults spending more time on TikTok than watching TV

      Ofcom survey points to challenges for traditional broadcasters in keeping pace with digital and streaming trends

      Women in face masks looking at their mobile phones in London
    • Monday, 27 June, 2022
      ReviewTelevision
      The Undeclared War, Channel 4 — secret service thriller stars Mark Rylance and Simon Pegg

      The series created by ‘Wolf Hall’ director Peter Kosminsky roots its fiction in today’s real-world politics

    • Saturday, 18 June, 2022
      David Abraham
      Channel 4 privatisation is a solution in search of a problem

      This model has helped sustain a successful British industry, and has proved itself across four decades of film and television

      Channel 4 headquarters in Horseferry Road, London.
    • Wednesday, 11 May, 2022
      Interview
      Channel 4 head Alex Mahon: ‘It’s not for me to oppose privatisation’

      Chief executive says she will remain ‘independent’ during expected legislative battle over state-owned UK broadcaster

      Alex Mahon, chief executive of Channel 4
    • Thursday, 5 May, 2022
      Channel 4 pushes back against privatisation

      UK broadcaster says there are many ‘stages to go in ownership discussions’ after announcing record results

      Channel 4’s headquarters in London
    • Wednesday, 27 April, 2022
      Media
      TV rules revamp offers more bargaining power to BBC, ITV and C4

      Planned legislation aims to give UK public service broadcasters boost in battle against streaming services

      Channel 4 headquarters
    • Tuesday, 19 April, 2022
      Cat Rutter Pooley
      Lessons for Channel 4 from Royal Mail’s privatisation

      Pros and cons of the government’s proposal to end public ownership of broadcaster

    • Thursday, 7 April, 2022
      Documents reveal Channel 4’s failed bid to head off privatisation

      Broadcaster’s plan to access private capital using hybrid model rejected by UK culture secretary

      A scene from Channel 4 drama ‘It’s a Sin’
    • Thursday, 7 April, 2022
      Due Diligence
      The M&A deal that almost nobody wants Premium content

      Plus, JetBlue gatecrashes Spirit’s merger with budget rival Frontier, and a scandal at KPMG comes to a close

    • Wednesday, 6 April, 2022
      Cat Rutter Pooley
      What’s the point in privatising Channel 4?

      The political will to push through a sale has changed, not the economic logic

      The Channel 4 show ‘Gogglebox’
    • Tuesday, 5 April, 2022
      Lex
      Channel 4: privatisation would leave most acquirers tuning out

      Even allowing for the UK broadcaster’s tendency to hoard cash, only the boldest private equity buyers would be interested

      The headquarters of Channel Four in London, UK
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