Channel 4 sell off.

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I don't watch channel 4 much but i hope we can still watch Gogglebox and 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown.



There is no commercial logic to selling off a network that has a unique mission. It is an act of political dogma and score-settling
Yesterday, Boris Johnson’s Conservative government announced it was selling off the channel, claiming that by doing so it would boost independent production companies.
This makes no sense. Instead of Channel 4 being a publicly-owned organisation that pumps hundreds of millions of pounds a year into the independent sector, it is being sold off, almost certainly to a giant TV production company, possibly from overseas.
It will be in the interests of that company to make as many of its own programmes as it can and retain the rights in them.

https://www.theguardian.com/comment...annel-4-wont-benefit-anyone-but-boris-johnson
 
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