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April 24, 2008

C4 should continue as PSB, TV survey finds

By colinc

Channel 4 should continue as a public service broadcaster but not at the expense of the BBC, a survey by television industry magazine Broadcast has found.

Some 80 per cent of respondants to the Broadcast poll said they favoured Channel 4 remaining a public service broadcaster but 59 per cent said that top-slicing the BBC licence fee to fund commercial rivals’ public service content was a bad idea.

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