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Aug 2, 2021 · November 1982 marked an exciting and important milestone in British broadcasting when Channel 4 and its corresponding service in Wales, Sianel 4 Cymru (S4C), began transmitting programmes in all the ITV regions: the first new and distinctive television service in the United Kingdom for nearly twenty years.
Dr Simon Cross, Nottingham Trent University, looks back at the impetus behind the creation of Channel 4, namely to widen the register of public discourse by extending the range and diversity of voices on British TV.
13 November – The Broadcasting Act 1980 paves the way for a fourth television channel in the UK. The channel is established as a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA). A subscription is levied on the ITV companies to pay for the channel; they sell Channel 4's airtime in return. 1981.
Conception. Before Channel 4 and S4C, Britain had three terrestrial television services: BBC1, BBC2, and ITV, with BBC2 the last to launch in 1964. The Broadcasting Act 1980 began the process of adding a fourth; Channel 4 was formally created, along with its Welsh counterpart, by an act of Parliament in 1982.
Thorn EMI, which operates Swindon Cable, launches four channels – movie channel The Entertainment Network, music channel Music Box, sport channel Screensport and The Children's Channel. Despite being delivered by satellite, they are created with the planned roll-out of cable across the UK in mind.
The growth of cable TV alarmed the main broadcast television networks—ABC, CBS, and NBC—which had almost totally controlled American TV audiences from the time television technology was first introduced in the 1940s. The networks expressed concerns about the impact of cable from the beginning.
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Channel 4 is free-to-air and freely available to all of the UK. We have the UK’s biggest free streaming service, plus a network of six television channels. Since Channel 4 was created in...
