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Channel 4 is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by Channel Four Television Corporation. It is publicly owned but, unlike the BBC, it receives no public funding and is funded entirely by its commercial activities, including advertising. [1] It began its transmission in 1982 and was established to provide a fourth television service in the United Kingdom ...
ITV, legally known as Channel 3, is a British free-to-air public broadcast television network. It is branded as ITV1 in most of the UK except for central and northern Scotland, where it is branded as STV. It was launched in 1955 as Independent Television to provide competition and reduce the current monopoly to the then BBC Television ...
ITV2 is a British free-to-air television channel owned by ITV Digital Channels, a division of ITV plc. [1] It was launched on 7 December 1998. For a number of years, it had the largest audience share after the five analogue terrestrial stations, a claim now held by its sister service ITV3 [2] both of which are freely available to a majority of households.
Jan 1, 2002 · Channel 4 brought the working concept of a publisher-broadcaster to the UK. Before this, with the exception of foreign imports and ITC productions, ITV produced its own programmes and aired its own programmes, as did the BBC.
The history of channel 4: a twenty year gestation. When Channel 4 was born in 1982, it owed its conception to creative visionaries who had been lobbying, briefing and cajoling for nigh on two ...
Nov 27, 2017 · From 1936 to 1955 there was only one television channel in the UK (and nothing at all during World War 2), then the ITV (Independent Television) network came along which unlike the BBC was funded entirely using revenue from advertisements shown between programmes. Another key difference with Independent Television (or ITV as it became known ...
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The arrival of Channel 4 in 1982 was a milestone in the history of public broadcasting. In particular, the channel was a model of public broadcasting adapted to the complexities of a multi-ethnic society eager for programmes extending not just the number of choices available but the very range of choice. From the outset, Channel 4 set about ...
