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The Making of Channel 4
Channel 4 had been controversial for years before it came on the air in November 1982. There were debates about its role, and its programming, its relationship with the ITV companies and its regulatory body the IBA. The controversy is revisited in these articles.
Channel 4
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A Licence to be Different
Traces the history and development of Channel 4, one of the UK's best loved and most controversial TV channels. Identifies key figures and signature programmes such as 'Brookside,' 'The Big Breakfast' and 'Wife Swap,' as well as successful American imports including 'Friends' and 'Sex and the City.'
Channel 4
This book covers a dramatic decade in the fortunes of Britain's quirkiest broadcaster. It opens in 2009, with the realisation that Channel 4's biggest money spinner, Big Brother, had become a toxic asset and would have to be discarded, at the same time as advertising revenues were shrinking in the wake of the 2008 financial crash. Maggie Brown's compelling narrative, which draws on interviews with key players in Channel 4's story and unique access to the broadcaster's archives, takes us inside the boardroom battles, changes in senior management and commissioning teams, interventions by the media regulator Ofcom, and the channel's response to a rapidly-changing media and political landscape. ...
The Media in Britain
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Channel 4
In 1982, Channel 4 burst onto British television screens. Charged by Parliament to appeal to tastes and interests not generally catered for by ITV, to be innovative, experimental, and educational, the new channel had to attract audiences and make a space for new voices.Did it fulfill its brief?Published on the 25th Anniversary of Channel 4, this book tells the story of its early years under Jeremy Isaacs, its inspirational--and fundamental--first Chief Executive. It also assesses the legacy of the channel and asks:has it changed the nature of British television, and has the enfant terrible grown up, or is it still a youthful rebel?
BBC Worldwide Limited, Channel Four Television Corporation and ITV Plc
In this final report on Project Kangaroo, the proposed joint venture relating to video on demand (VOD), the Competition Commission confirms its provisional finding that the joint venture is likely to result in a substantial lessening of competition (SLC) in the supply of UK TV VOD content at the wholesale and retail levels, and consequently blocks the venture. The CC published a notice of possible remedies to address the SLC in December 2008. These possible remedies included putting in place access remedies to control the way that content is offered to other providers and/or making material modifications to the terms of the joint venture. Other possible measures have since been suggested by ...
Independent Television in Britain
The ITV network was designed as a federation of companies, different in size and character, jointly and severally constructing programme schedules in which strands of entertainment were interwoven with news bulletins, drama with sport, feature films with documentaries, church services with broadcasting for schools. The purpose of this volume is to convey some impression of diversity by illustrating and illuminating the rich assortment of companies and programmes making up ITV's overall service to the public in the operation of a plural system on a single television channel during a peak period in British broadcasting.
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