Submitted on Wednesday 6th April 2022
Rejected on Thursday 7th April 2022
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Cancel the proposed privatisation of Channel 4
The Government is proposing to privatise Channel 4.
This should be opposed: Channel 4 costs the tax-payer nothing as it is funded by advertising and sales, whilst offering an extensive range of innovative programmes that would be unlikely to find a home on a private channel.
Channel 4 is one of the only UK broadcasters to genuinely represent a wide cross-section of society (e.g. Skins, It’s A Sin, Paralympics, Bandung File, Queer As Folk, the Black to Front project etc.) as well as feature films through Film 4, and one of the most engaged news programmes available.
Selling it brings no public benefit as the channel is not a drain on public resources, but the loss to diversity and innovation in programming would be irreplaceable.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.
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You may wish to sign this petition which calls for the same action: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/613995
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