Channel 4 privatisation – how would it work and who would buy it?

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Selling off the publicly owned UK broadcaster could depend on changing its business model

. Ultimately, it was decided that the benefits of a cash windfall to the government were outweighed by the scale of the detrimental impact on the independent TV sector. In 2017, the culture secretary Karen Bradley formally ruled privatisation out, saying Channel 4 was a “precious public asset” that would “continue to be owned by the country”. Instead, the government pushed for Channel 4 to relocate significant parts of its operations and staff out of London.

 

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And it continues...silence all opposition. Guardian beware!

Remember the Daily Herald became the Sun?

I'm sure when it ends up in the Foreign Oligarchs Laundering Portfolio it'll maintain high standards and impartial reporting and won't in any way work to undermine the National interest. At all. Honest Guv.

Rupert Murdoch.

Murdoch…

More to the point who will make profits from the sale

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