Channel 4 on Gordon's chopping block?

Great just great, the guy is not even in the Prime Minister yet and he's already got people working away to see if privatising Channel 4 is an option for him, from the Torygraph.

Asked if Mr Brown might sell Channel 4 to raise an estimated £1 billion, a Treasury spokesman described the idea as "speculation" but declined to rule it out completely.

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However, she is likely to be moved from her post when Mr Brown becomes Prime Minister.

It is believed that BSkyB and RTL, the owner of Five, would be interested in buying Channel 4 if it were put up for sale.

Great! Murdoch and friends would be interested. Fantastic, we all know how utterly rubbish Sky and Five is. We don't need Channel 4 to become any crapper than it already is, let alone that crap.

Leave Channel 4 alone, stop dumbing down television.

If you want to raise some money, don't spend it all on the £76 billion rip-off called Trident, we do not need nuclear weapons.

3 comments

Comment from: Anthony [Visitor]
Why wouldn't they just raise the advertising costs for people who want to be on the station? Then they could maintain control of it and raise more money. Or cut programming by 3 minutes per hour to have 1 more commercial. Wouldn't that make up the money they want for selling it?
8th June 2007 @ 18:24
Because the more dependant a channel is on advertising for income the more dependant its programming becomes on ratings, therefore you just just more and more populist crap rather than interesting programmes that cater for all
10th June 2007 @ 18:23
Comment from: Anthony [Visitor]
I'll sit down and watch Discovery or History channel any day of the week because it has interesting content. If the channel is showing worthy content the ratings will be there. Wouldn't it be better to have one "entertainment" show so that you could still have public control rather than just give it up to private control?
11th June 2007 @ 17:15

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