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- It was created in 1982 to challenge the then prevalent beliefs about impartiality, balance and universality of address in broadcasting. It did so through a guerrilla war with the regulatory body ITC, which had the right to vet programmes before transmission.
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1982. 2 August – Test broadcasts commence. These mainly consist of showing the IBA 's testcard ETP-1 between 9 am and 8 pm. 2 November – Channel 4 launches across most of England, Scotland and Northern Ireland – Wales' fourth channel, S4C, had launched the previous evening.
When Channel 4 was born in 1982, it owed its conception to creative visionaries who had been lobbying, briefing and cajoling for nigh on two decades.
Channel 4: extending voices. The arrival of Channel 4 in 1982 was a milestone in the history of public broadcasting. In particular, the channel was a model of public broadcasting adapted to the complexities of a multi-ethnic society eager for programmes extending not just the number of choices available but the very range of choice.
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.
Nov 2, 2020 · With literally hundreds of channels and on-demand services now available, it's perhaps hard to imagine a world where viewing options were limited to just three linear TV channels - but that was exactly the case until this day in 1982, when Channel 4 burst onto the airwaves across the UK.
Nov 2, 2007 · 25 facts from Channel 4's 25 years. Channel 4 celebrates its 25th anniversary on air on Friday 2 November. To mark this milestone, here are 25 facts about the network. IN THE BEGINNING. The...
Jan 11, 2021 · “The original Channel 4 logo was designed by a lovely man called Martin Lambie-Nairn. The tumbling idents had to be produced in the US – where mega computers were commandeered in downtime and each ident was created frame by frame, and transferred to 35mm film one frame at a time.
