Doesn't the BBC also derive some of it's funding from non-license fee activities? If this is the case then C4 and the BBC are both indirectly funded by the tax payer and commercial activities although in different proportions and to a different scale.
Since most residents are TV license payers and the vast majority of those will be UK tax payers, I think there should also be a similar campaign for non-DRM-encumbered output on C4 also :-) After all, national DTT muxes and UHF channels don't come cheap - if they were auctioned commercially to C4 I'm sure the gov't would make quite a large amount of money in the order of billions of £s. On Fri, 2008-10-17 at 11:12 +0100, Brian Butterworth wrote: > 2008/10/17 Kevin Hinde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Iain Wallace wrote: > > > So it looks like C4 is shareholder-free. > > > > Wow, every day is a school day. I never realised that. Even > > so, none of my money is going towards Channel 4 so I don't > > feel like it's any of my business how they digitally > > distribute their programming. > > > In a sense, some of your money goes towards Channel 4 because > they get > free analogue spectrum in return for their public service > responsibilities. Hard to say exactly what the value of that > subsidy is. > > > This isn't strictly true. Channel 4 IS a public service broadcaster, > has been since the first day. For this reason they were provided > with the fourth UHF channel in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland > by the Broadcasting Act 1980, and granted half a Freeview multiplex by > the 1996 Act. > > > Whatever happened to backstage's OFCOM mole? > > > He got too senior a job there! > > > > Kevin. > > > - > 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]/ > > > > > -- > > Brian Butterworth > > NEW LOOK! http://www.ukfree.tv - independent digital television and > switchover advice, since 2002 > - 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]/
