Sell ​​Channel 4 as a “High Risk and Destructive Path”-Chairman

Channel 4 chairman warned government Oppose embarking on the “high-risk and destructive path” of privatizing broadcasters.

In the letter to the Minister of Culture Oliver Dawden The Palestinian Authority News Agency saw that Charles Gulasa said that the government risked “sleepwalking in an important, successful, well-loved, irreversible, and risky sale”. United Kingdom mechanism”.

The government is consulting on plans to privatize Channel 4.

Mr. Gulasa wrote: “We look forward to having a constructive dialogue with you and your department on the role that Channel 4 can play in the long-term media landscape, and responding to inquiries comprehensively in due course.

“However, we are deeply concerned about the unsubstantiated assertion that the sale of Channel 4 is in the national interest.

“Without a transparent assessment of the impact of such a decision, the government might sleepwalk, irreversibly and risk-takingly selling an important, successful and well-loved British institution.”

The channel was established in 1982 to serve underserved audiences, to be owned by the government, and to obtain funding from advertising.

The Ministry of Digital, Culture, Media and Sports (DCMS) stated that the decision to review the ownership structure of Channel 4 was made because the changing media landscape poses a serious threat to traditional linear broadcasters.

Mr. Gulasa hyped the channel’s financial status in the letter and stated that it has a “clear plan” to move forward.

The board stated that it is the same as the government’s ambitions for the channel. As an organization, it “booms in change and embraces innovation-insisting on the status quo is not the way Channel 4 operates, and it has never been.”

However, it states: “Reading and analyzing the arguments put forward in your consultation paper, it is difficult to reconcile these goals with the established preferred results of the company’s full sale.