“C4 is in wonderful monetary well being & doesn’t need or want to lift outdoors capital to fund its future plans.”
Channel 4 has referred to as out Tradition Secretary Nadine Dorries after she made a declare within the Commons about privatising the channel.
Yesterday, Dorries posted a video to Twitter of herself talking within the Home of Commons the place she stated that privatising Channel 4 would set them free to lift extra funding. She stated: “Channel 4 need to increase funding. They need to put money into extra content material. What we’re doing is setting Channel 4 free to have the ability to try this.
Dorries went on so as to add: “As a result of as state owned, if Channel 4 does that while it’s state owned it’s offset towards the general public stability sheet. We can not permit that as a result of governments don’t personal cash, we solely have taxpayers’ cash and subsequently now we have to allow Channel 4 to have the ability to be let loose to lift funding to proceed to make the wonderful and distinctive British content material – edgy, numerous programmes that it does.”
Dorries additionally referenced a report printed by Channel 4 referred to as The Subsequent Episode which she claimed confirmed the broadcaster “needs to lift funding”.
Nonetheless, Channel 4 referred to as out the tradition secretary’s claims in a tweet, hitting again at claims that it wanted to lift more cash to supply content material.
Responding to her claims, the Channel 4 press account tweeted: “Clarification: A proposal was made, in response to a request from DCMS, displaying how C4 might doubtlessly increase a small quantity of outdoor capital.
“C4 is in wonderful monetary well being & doesn’t need or want to lift outdoors capital to fund its future plans.”
I believe many people can see that the sale of Channel 4 isn’t actually motivated by enterprise concerns however extra by the truth that the federal government would fairly unload a channel that’s regularly been important of its actions.
Basit Mahmood is editor of Left Foot Ahead
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