46 Facts About Channel Four

In 2010, Channel Four 4 extended service into Wales and became a UK-wide television channel.

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.

The first person to be seen on Channel Four 4 was Richard Whiteley, with Ted Moult being the second.

At its launch, Channel Four 4 committed itself to providing an alternative to the existing channels, an agenda in part set out by its remit which required the provision of programming to minority groups.

Channel Four 4 co-commissioned Robert Ashley's television opera Perfect Lives, which it premiered over several episodes in 1984.

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In 1992, Channel Four 4 faced its first libel case by Jani Allan, a South African journalist, who objected to her representation in Nick Broomfield's documentary The Leader, His Driver and the Driver's Wife.

On 31 December 2004, Channel Four 4 launched a new look and new idents in which the logo is disguised as different objects and the 4 can be seen in an angle.

Channel Four 4 made E4 free-to-air on digital terrestrial television, and launched a new free-to-air digital channel called More4.

New programmes such as the weekly, half-hour The Morning Report news programme were among some of the new content Channel Four 4 provided for the station, with the name 4Radio being used.

In November 2009, Channel Four 4 launched a week of 3D television, broadcasting selected programmes each night using stereoscopic ColorCode 3D technology.

On 29 September 2015, Channel Four 4 revamped its presentation for a fifth time; the new branding downplayed the "4" logo from most on-air usage, in favour of using the shapes from the logo in various forms.

Channel Four 4 commissioned two new corporate typefaces, "Chadwick", and "Horseferry", for use across promotional material and on-air.

On 31 October 2017, Channel Four 4 introduced a new series of idents continuing the theme, this time depicting the logo shapes as having formed an anthropomorphic "giant" character.

On 28 March 2007, Channel Four 4 announced plans to launch a music channel "4Music" as a joint venture with British media company EMAP, which would include carriage on the Freeview platform.

Channel Four 4 announced interest in launching a high-definition version of Film4 on Freeview, to coincide with the launch of Channel Four 4 HD.

In June 2022 after a six month long investigation, Ofcom found that Channel Four 4 had breached its broadcast licence conditions on two grounds: Missing its subtitles quota on Freesat for 2021 and failure to effectively communicate with affected audiences.

Channel Four 4 was established with, and continues to hold, a remit of public service obligations which it must fulfil.

The remit changes periodically, as dictated by various broadcasting and communications acts, and is regulated by the various authorities Channel Four 4 has been answerable to; originally the IBA, then the ITC and now Ofcom.

Public service remit for Channel Four 4 is the provision of a broad range of high quality and diverse programming which, in particular:.

Channel Four 4 was carried from its beginning on analogue terrestrial, which was then the standard means of television broadcast in the United Kingdom.

Channel Four 4 is available outside the United Kingdom; it is widely available in the Republic of Ireland, the Netherlands, Belgium and Switzerland.

Channel Four 4 is provided by Virgin Mobile's DAB mobile TV service, which has the same restrictions as the Internet live stream had.

Channel Four 4 is carried by the Internet TV service TVCatchup and was previously carried by Zattoo until the operator removed the channel from its platform.

Channel Four 4 makes some of its programming available "on demand" via cable and the Internet through All 4.

Channel Four 4 is a "publisher-broadcaster", meaning that it commissions or "buys" all of its programming from companies independent of itself.

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Additionally, Channel Four 4 began a trend of owning the copyright and distribution rights of the programmes it aired, in a manner that is similar to the major Hollywood studios' ownership of television programmes that they did not directly produce.

In 2010, Channel Four 4 organised Channel Four 4's Comedy Gala, a comedy benefit show in aid of Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital.

In 2021, Channel Four 4 decided to revive The British Comedy Awards as part of their Stand Up To Cancer programming.

Channel Four 4 has a strong reputation for history programmes and documentaries.

Channel Four 4 is obliged to carry schools programming as part of its remit and licence.

Channel Four ignored the religious programme advisory structure that had been put in place by the BBC, and subsequently adopted by ITV.

Since 1 November 1998, Channel Four 4 has had a digital subsidiary channel dedicated to the screening of films.

On 8 March 2007, Channel Four 4 screened a documentary, The Great Global Warming Swindle stating that global warming is "a lie" and "the biggest scam of modern times".

Since the 2010s, Channel Four 4 has become the public service broadcaster most likely to amend their schedule at short notice, if programmes are not gaining sufficient viewers in their intended slots.

Since its launch in 1982, Channel Four 4 has used the same logo which consists of a stylised numeral "4" made up of nine differently-shaped blocks.

Channel Four 4 has, since its inception, broadcast identical programmes and continuity throughout the United Kingdom.

Since the launch of subsequent British television channels, Channel Four 4 has become typical in its lack of regional programming variations.

Channel Four 4 has a dedicated director of nations and regions, Stuart Cosgrove, who is based in a regional office in Glasgow.

Channel Four 4 is available in Ireland, with adverts specifically tailored towards the Irish market.

Channel Four 4 believe that a scaling-back of such operations on ITV's part would be detrimental to Channel Four 4's national news operation, which shares much of its resources with ITV through their shared news contractor ITN.

In mid-2006 Channel Four 4 ran a six-month closed trial of HDTV, as part of the wider Freeview HD experiment via the Crystal Palace transmitter to London and parts of the home counties, including the use of Lost and Desperate Housewives as part of the experiment, as US broadcasters such as ABC already have an HDTV back catalogue.

On 10 December 2007, Channel Four 4 launched a high-definition television simulcast of Channel Four 4 on Sky's digital satellite platform, after Sky agreed to contribute toward the channel's satellite distribution costs.

Channel Four carries the same schedule as Channel Four 4, broadcasting programmes in HD when available, acting as a simulcast.

On 20 February 2018, Channel Four 4 announced that Channel Four 4 HD and All 4 would no longer be supplied on Freesat from 22 February 2018.

On 27 September 2022, the other 6 advertising regions of Channel Four 4 were made available in HD on Sky and Virgin Media.

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In 2003, Channel Four 4 awarded Teletext Ltd a ten-year contract to run the channel's ancillary teletext service, named Teletext on 4.