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What factors led to the provision of Britain's fourth television channel? How did Channel Four change public service broadcasting?
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What factors led to the provision of Britain's fourth television channel? How did Channel Four change public service broadcasting? Many factors led to the introduction of Channel Four in Britain in1982. There was a common concurrence that there was not a channel that was representative of the minority groups of Great Britain and that after the BBC was given a second channel, it seemed inevitable that another channel would follow suit. I will be discussing these issues that led to the final decisions of the new channel that is now Channel Four including the pressure groups which campaigned for it, the governmental oppositions which were involved, the Annan Report of 1977, the new Broadcasting Act of 1980, which stated that Channel Four programmes 'should contain a suitable proportion of matter calculated to appeal to tastes and interests not generally catered for by Channel 3', and the responses to the new channel...
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