> On Thursday 16 October 2008 11:31:56 Andrew Bowden wrote: > > You are a Channel 4 shareholder. In essence. Channel 4 is > > a publicly > > owned corporation, and as such, is owned by the population > of the UK. > Isn't the government's stake 51% or something?
Nope. It's fully public - the Channel 4 Television Corporation officially. Many people think it's commercial due to it obviously showing adverts, and because in the 1980s ITV and C4 did cross promotion. That's because up until 1992, the station was funded by the ITV companies, who sold the adverts on C4. That ceased on New Years Day 1993. - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
