[SWLUG] BBC's "iPlayer"

[Richard John]

There were threats to stop the public funding a few weeks ago, though?

http://news.independent.co.uk/media/article2686917.ece

The Wikipedia article is obviously incorrect.

On 6/28/07, Richard John <richard.john at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> There were threats to stop public funding though, a few weeks ago?
>
> On 6/28/07, Chris M. Jackson <chriscf at gmail.com > wrote:
> >
> > On 6/28/07, Dave Cridland <dave at cridland.net > wrote:
> > > On Thu Jun 28 16:42:01 2007, Richard John wrote:
> > > > Channel 4 is not publicly owned - they receive public funding, but
> > > > they are
> > > > not publicly owned!
> > > >
> > > >
> > > Pretty sure that the Channel Four Television Corporation is
> > > state-owned, in the same way as the BBC is. It used to be a
> > > subsiduary of the IBA, when that existed. AFAIK, it's not publically
> > > funded at all, however - it gets its funds from advertising and other
> > > ventures, and used to have some kind of weird cross-funding from ITV
> > > (although I think that's stopped).
> >
> > Channel Four Television Corporation indeed *is* a publicly-owned
> > company, but *does not* receive public funds (the Big Brother
> > shitstorm would have reached a whole new level if it did).  It was set
> > up in 1992 to handle C4 when the IBA was dismantled, to operate
> > independently but with a "safety net" in place just in case - it
> > proved to be viable, so the cord was cut in the late 90s.
> >
> > Originally, it was part of the IBA, and advertising was managed by the
> > local ITV companies - in the early days, they had difficulty in
> > selling the space so frequently 3-minute ad breaks would contain only
> > one or two adverts padded by long "follows shortly" holding slides.
> >
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